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["Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT codemages.net>]

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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