Yes this is true - /etc/rc cleans out /var/run on every boot.  Among other
things, it also removes the /var/run/ld.so.hints file, which can cause a
number of problems...

On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Tom T. Thai wrote:

> is this true?
> 
> 
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> Thomas T. Thai          Infomedia Interactive Communications
> tom@iic.net             TEL 612.376.9090 * FAX 612.376.9087
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> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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.
> 
> 

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