Folks,

I've just updated two of my systems to 1.5K (-current yesterday) and
something in rc is not working right.

Basically, it seems that /var/run is being cleaned out long after most
of the things that write their pid files there have been started.  The
net result is that /var/run is nearly empty.  I have only 3 pid files
(for cron, inetd, and sshd), and no dev.db!  

Among other things that probably don't work, ``ps'' keeps barking about
the missing dev.db while hourly I get a mail message from newsyslog that
it couldn't find the /var/run/syslogd.pid file.

This is on both i386 and alpha platforms...  I don't remember seeing
anything similar come through on the list......

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