is this true?


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Thomas T. Thai          Infomedia Interactive Communications
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Date: 19 Jun 1997 03:09:34 -0700
From: James R Grinter <jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk>
To: tom@iic.net
Subject: Re: Disappearing /var/run/news dir

tom@iic.net (Thomas T. Thai) writes:
> Every type I ctlinnd shutdown all now, then reboot, INN complains that
> /var/run/news is not there.  I check and it disappeared.  So I mkdir
> /var/run/new && chmod news:news /var/run/news and restart with su new
> -c /usr/local/news/bin/rc.news > /dev/console and it runs.
> 
> I test it again, and bring INN down and reboot, and /var/run/news is
> not there again!  System is NetBSD-current running inn1.5.1

I think that NetBSD tidies up /var/run/ at boot time.

James.