Re: problem cleaning /tmp /var/run, etc
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 07:12:26PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-02-13 17:32 +0100, vwf wrote:
>
> > I found a problem. I installed Lenny last May on a new PC. Since a few
> > weeks I found that /tmp and /var/run are not cleaned during boot. The
> > oldest entry in /var/run is 1985-01-01. I checked everything, but all
> > looks good.
>
> Are you sure that these entries are not coming from scripts that had
> been run during the _new_ boot? Note that the sudo initscript sets the
> timestamp of /var/run/sudo to 1985-01-01 to invalidate any tickets.
That solves the sudo mystery, but others remain. One is /var/run/exim4/,
which is not installed, /var/run/apache2/, /var/run/hplip/,
/var/run/identd/, /var/run/sshd/, and others, which are empty. I would
expect them to be gone. In addition, /tmp is only cleaned when I do it
manually.
Frits
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