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Re: cleaning up left over files...



On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 02:41:51AM +0100, Wolfgang Jährling wrote:
> Am Son, 02 Jan 2000 schrieb Marcus Brinkmann:
> > On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 06:52:35PM +0100, Wolfgang Jährling wrote:
> > > cleaning up left over files...
> > > 
> > > And it took some minutes before the startup continued. What is the
> > > reason for this message?
> > 
> > See /libexec/rc, please. Did you have unusual stuff in /tmp?
> 
> I don't know of anything what could have been there.

Well, if there were large or lot of left over files... the Hurd is very slow
in purging directory hierarchies.

> BTW: Today I typed
> 
> cat /dev/log
> 
> and got the message
> 
> cat: /dev/log: Not a directory
> 
> Funny, isn't it? :)

yep :) It's a bug, definitely. Care to investigate it?

Thanks,
Marcus

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