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>Number:         5619
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       /etc/rc doesn't clean /var/run properly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Feb  1 01:20:01 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Sascha Blank
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386
>Environment:

A very recent 2.2.5-STABLE system. The /etc/rc file has the version number:

/etc/rc:
     $Id: rc,v 1.104.2.32 1998/01/29 11:17:44 obrien Exp $

>Description:

During system startup /etc/rc cleans the /var/run directory. This works
well unless you have a port installed like xemacs-20.3 that creates a
subdirectory under /var/run (in this case /var/run/xemacs/lock). Because
of this I get the error message 

	rm: /var/run/xemacs: is a directory

every time /etc/rc is processed.

>How-To-Repeat:

Create a directory under /var/run and watch for the message as /etc/rc
is processed.

>Fix:

This small diff fixes the problem by replacing the rm command with a
more appropriate find-rm combination.

*** /usr/src/etc/rc	Fri Jan 30 17:19:36 1998
--- /etc/rc	Sun Feb  1 10:07:09 1998
***************
*** 98,104 ****
  
  adjkerntz -i
  
! rm -f /var/run/*
  
  # Keep a copy of the boot messages around
  dmesg > /var/run/dmesg.boot
--- 98,104 ----
  
  adjkerntz -i
  
! find /var/run -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
  
  # Keep a copy of the boot messages around
  dmesg > /var/run/dmesg.boot

--	     
             Sascha Blank            | "I prefer to work behind the scenes. The
   Student and System Administrator  | reward is nearly as great,  and the risk
 at the University of Trier, Germany | is far far less" - Ambassador Mollari in
    mailto:blank@fox.uni-trier.de    | in Babylon 5, "The coming of shadows"
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: