purge /var/run/*pid ?

[George Georgalis]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:15:48AM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
>Lately "George Georgalis" <george at xxxxxxxxx> said:
>> in that case maybe /var/run/*.pid files should be purged at end of
>> shutdown or start of boot? or maybe all rc scripts should trap SIGTERM
>> (and other "terminate process" signals?) to remove their own pid file
>> on exit? Thoughts?
>
>i thought /var/run is being cleaned on startup anyways...

humm, well not this time...

c12# uptime 
12:18AM  up 28 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
c12# ls -l /var/run/
total 62
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        4 Jun 20 23:50 cron.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        4 Jun 20 23:50 cvsdup.sh.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    57344 Jun 20 23:50 dev.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     4983 Jun 20 23:50 dmesg.boot
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel      197 Jun 20 23:50 ld-elf.so.hints
srw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel        0 Jun 20 23:50 log
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        4 Jun 20 23:50 mountd.pid
drwxrwx---  2 root  network    512 Jun  5 15:59 ppp
-rw-------  1 root  wheel       78 Jun 20 23:50 sendmail.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        4 Jun 20 23:50 sshd.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        4 Jun 20 23:50 syslog.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        0 Jun 20 23:50 syslogd.sockets
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      748 Jun 20 23:50 utmp
c12# date
Tue Jun 21 00:18:25 EDT 2005
c12# 

I'll take another look to see if I broke something here...

// George

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