Re: problem cleaning /tmp /var/run, etc

2009-02-14 Thread vwf
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 09:19:47AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: [] > Subdirectories of /var/run are left alone, possibly to avoid problems > with buggy packages that forget to recreate them in their init script. > I'm not sure that this is TRT because having /var/run on a tmpfs is > supposed to b

Re: problem cleaning /tmp /var/run, etc

2009-02-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-14 07:18 +0100, vwf wrote: > 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. Subdirectories of /var/

Re: problem cleaning /tmp /var/run, etc

2009-02-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 14 February 2009 07:18:46 vwf wrote: > 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

Re: problem cleaning /tmp /var/run, etc

2009-02-13 Thread vwf
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.

Re: problem cleaning /tmp /var/run, etc

2009-02-13 Thread Sven Joachim
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 ent