From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 5 11:25:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6682B37B405 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:25:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.247.136.241.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.136.241]) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f95IPe921379; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:25:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f95I4wO00409; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:04:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:04:58 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Bernd Walter Cc: Leif Neland , Jun Kuriyama , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named pid file in /var/run/named/pid? Message-ID: <20011005110458.B310@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <7md743mtp2.wl@waterblue.imgsrc.co.jp> <20011004181305.B57424-100000@arnold.neland.dk> <20011004131915.C297@blossom.cjclark.org> <20011005000302.F3918@cicely20.cicely.de> <20011004153335.J297@blossom.cjclark.org> <20011005111817.G3918@cicely20.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011005111817.G3918@cicely20.cicely.de>; from ticso@mail.cicely.de on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:18:18AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:18:18AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:33:35PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:03:02AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > It is not that big of a deal to hack this support for named into the > > > > rc scripts. It is a hassle when considering the "correct" way to > > > > handle this to make it extensible to other daemons we may wish to run > > > > in such a manner. > > > > > > The question is what is the correct way. > > > > It happens I've just been hacking around in /etc/rc where the clean-up > > of /var/run is done, and someone else mentioned mtree(8) in this > > thread (but in a different context). I think it would be easy enough > > to run mtree(8) right after /var/run is cleaned (and long after it would > > be mounted as an md(4)) to get it into good form. The problem reduces > > to maintaining the map file for this purpose. > > It's fine for the base system but what about ports? > They don't have an mtree entry but share /var/run. I didn't say maintaining the map file was going to be easy. ;) -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu cjclark@jhu.edu cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message