From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 28 2:55:22 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A5037B71A; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:55:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2SAsP604010; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:54:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:54:25 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Brian Somers Cc: Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <20010328025425.U9431@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200103281041.f2SAfMm53577@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103281041.f2SAfMm53577@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:41:22AM +0100 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Brian Somers [010328 02:37] wrote: > > * Brian Somers [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