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Re: purge /var/run/*pid ?


From: "George Georgalis" <george@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:24:39 -0400
Mail-followup-to: bugs@crater.dragonflybsd.org, corecode@fs.ei.tum.de

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:15:48AM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
>Lately "George Georgalis" <george@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>> in that case maybe /var/run/*.pid files should be purged at end of
>> shutdown or start of boot? or maybe all rc scripts should trap SIGTERM
>> (and other "terminate process" signals?) to remove their own pid file
>> on exit? Thoughts?
>
>i thought /var/run is being cleaned on startup anyways...

humm, well not this time...

c12# uptime 
12:18AM  up 28 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
c12# ls -l /var/run/
total 62
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        4 Jun 20 23:50 cron.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        4 Jun 20 23:50 cvsdup.sh.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    57344 Jun 20 23:50 dev.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     4983 Jun 20 23:50 dmesg.boot
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel      197 Jun 20 23:50 ld-elf.so.hints
srw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel        0 Jun 20 23:50 log
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        4 Jun 20 23:50 mountd.pid
drwxrwx---  2 root  network    512 Jun  5 15:59 ppp
-rw-------  1 root  wheel       78 Jun 20 23:50 sendmail.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        4 Jun 20 23:50 sshd.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        4 Jun 20 23:50 syslog.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        0 Jun 20 23:50 syslogd.sockets
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      748 Jun 20 23:50 utmp
c12# date
Tue Jun 21 00:18:25 EDT 2005
c12# 

I'll take another look to see if I broke something here...

// George

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George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator Linux BSD IXOYE
http://galis.org/george/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:george@xxxxxxxxx



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