Re: Deleting /var/cache/*

2002-09-04 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 04 Sep 2002, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Ofcourse, it could just do system("mkdir -p /var/cache/whatever/dir/it/is") > everytime it wants to open a file but that would be inefficient. If it has the permissions to do so. Not everything runs as root and can create directories belowe /va

Re: Deleting /var/cache/*

2002-09-04 Thread Herbert Xu
Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > True, the FHS does not specifically say that directories have to be > recreated, but I would consider it a bug if they aren't. Anyone agree? I think it would be much better if you did find /var/cache ! -type d -print0 | xargs -0r rm -f The complicat

Re: Deleting /var/cache/*

2002-09-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:34:23PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > /etc/cron.daily/man-db: > fopen: No such file or directory > mandb: can't create index cache /var/cache/man/1075: No such file or > directory > mandb: can't chmod /var/cache/man/index.bt: No such file or directory > mandb: warning: c

Re: Deleting /var/cache/*

2002-09-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:02:33PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > I think the key word is "files". As you say it doesn't talk about about > directories, for good reason since it's an awful lot of work. you'd have to > replace: I think that FHS would transmit the content that "stuff" in /va

Re: Deleting /var/cache/*

2002-09-03 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:34:23PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > I deleted /var/cache/* today to free up some space on my /var > partition. However, instead of applications re-creating the files as I > expected, I recieved a bunch of error messages. > apt/apt-get refused to do anything until I ma

Re: Deleting /var/cache/*

2002-09-03 Thread Joey Hess
Duncan Findlay wrote: > True, the FHS does not specifically say that directories have to be > recreated, but I would consider it a bug if they aren't. Anyone agree? I think it would be at best a feature request, but I would like to see that feature implemented, nontheless.. -- see shy jo pgpDT

Deleting /var/cache/*

2002-09-03 Thread Duncan Findlay
I deleted /var/cache/* today to free up some space on my /var partition. However, instead of applications re-creating the files as I expected, I recieved a bunch of error messages. apt/apt-get refused to do anything until I manually created the directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial I also got