From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 15:59:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00903 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:59:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00753 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:58:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA10234; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:24:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:24:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jason Nordwick cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc cleaning of /var/run In-Reply-To: <355F30E2.35E2B3B5@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 May 1998, Jason Nordwick wrote: > The line that cleans out /var/run is: > rm -f /var/run/* > > However, Xemacs makes a directory in /var/run, so it > is not cleaned out properly on startup... Why it is > not: > rm -rf /var/run/* We had an argument about that last year and I think it's intentially run without the -rf option specifically to preserve the xemacs/ directory. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message