Subject: Re: Disappearing /var/run/news dir (fwd)
To: Andrew Brown <codewarrior@daemon.org>
From: Tom T. Thai <tomthai@future.net>
List: current-users
Date: 06/19/1997 18:13:30
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Andrew Brown wrote:

> >is this true?
> 
> uh...yeah?  look at the top of /etc/rc right below the part where it
> mounts /var...
> 
>    ...
>    mount /var >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
>    # clean up left-over files
>    rm -f /etc/nologin
>    rm -f /var/spool/lock/LCK.*
>    rm -f /var/spool/uucp/STST/*
>    (cd /var/run && { rm -rf -- *; install -c -m 664 -g utmp /dev/null utmp; })
>    ...
> 
> why don't you stick it in /var/spool?

var spool is a ccd drive for only spool.. trying to put different things 
at different places.. 

> 
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