From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 26 11:51:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04645 for current-outgoing; Mon, 26 May 1997 11:51:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA04631 for ; Mon, 26 May 1997 11:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA13499 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 26 May 1997 20:51:40 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA26389; Mon, 26 May 1997 20:30:01 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970526203001.QO27493@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 20:30:01 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see /etc/rc not clean /tmp anymore References: <199705261541.BAA32220@godzilla.zeta.org.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199705261541.BAA32220@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on May 27, 1997 01:41:30 +1000 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > Cleaning of /var/run is broken too. See rev.1.89 of etc/rc. I wonder whether we should cleanup before netstart (or its equivalent) is running. I know, it's impossible to find something that will fit every need, but not cleaning old crap like /var/run/*.pid doesn't sound right. (Stale PID files could be misinterpreted by some process, since the PIDs have been recycled after a reboot.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)