From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 26 14:36:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12547 for current-outgoing; Mon, 26 May 1997 14:36:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nagual.pp.ru (ache.relcom.ru [194.58.229.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA12542 for ; Mon, 26 May 1997 14:36:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA01456; Tue, 27 May 1997 01:36:31 +0400 (MSD) Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 01:36:29 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= To: Joerg Wunsch cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see /etc/rc not clean /tmp anymore In-Reply-To: <19970526203001.QO27493@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 26 May 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > 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.) Yes, not cleaning /var/run sounds VERY dangerous since newsyslogd can kill random process in this case. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/