Looks like the culprit is /etc/rc.d/systemfs which is started by rcorder
very near the end of system startup.  It seems that both systemfs and
mountcritlocal both contain code to clean out /var/run - my guess is
that only mountcritlocal needs to have this.

On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Charlie ROOT wrote:

> 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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