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  • From: "Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT codemages.net>
  • To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Testing of devel ISO 20080322
  • Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:27:52 +0200

On 07:24:49 2008-04-11 Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
> On Thursday, April 10 2008 22:05:22 Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote:
> > On 23:24:20 2008-04-10 Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
> > > * The default installed /etc/fstab is missing some common entries,
> > > such as: tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs
> > > defaults,size=10m 0 0 tmpfs /var/run
> > > tmpfs defaults,size=10m 0 0 tmpfs
> > > /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=1g,nr_inodes=64m 0
> > > 0
> > >
> > > # enable this to get POSIX shared memory support
> > > (needed for a few apps)
> > > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,size=2g
> > > 0 0
> >
> > No such thing... All of these are per FHS normal filesystems NOT
> > tmpfs...
>
> If you want to follow FHS, then you need to clear out /tmp, /var/lock,
> and /var/run on each reboot. :p I just use tmpfs to avoid all that.
>
> So, add tmpfs to be closer to FHS by cleaning out what you're supposed
> to clean out, or modify our init scripts to wipe those directories on
> boot. I prefer the tmpfs method, myself.
>

Our init scripts already do that... You should check them...
And no you aren't supposed to wipe them... clean != wipe...

In run you are only supposed to remove files not directories... And our
init scripts do that...


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