Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:54:25 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <20010328025425.U9431@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200103281041.f2SAfMm53577@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:41:22AM %2B0100 References: <bright@wintelcom.net> <200103281041.f2SAfMm53577@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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* Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> [010328 02:37] wrote: > > * Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org> [010328 02:13] wrote: > > > brian 2001/03/28 02:13:27 PST > > > > > > Modified files: > > > etc rc > > > Log: > > > Remove sockets found in /var/run or /var/spool/lock at boot time > > > (as well as files). > > > > This may be a bad idea. > > > > Some applications may use these files as an indication of an > > unorderly shutdown (kill -9 / crash). And refuse to start unless > > repair utilities are run (or run them automatically). > > > > What do you think? > > I think it's ok. The original code (before purgedir was put there) > just did a ``rm /var/run/*''. Ok, sorry for the noise. :) I just wanted to make sure we weren't doing something that would break POLA. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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