purge /var/run/*pid ?

Mon Jun 20 17:16:17 PDT 2005

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...

cheers
  simon

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