On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joshua Murphy wrote: <snip> > > Well, I don't see why not. As you say, lack of a proper clean up after > a bad shutdown can cause problems. Anything in /run would disappear > after a shutdown, clean or not, since it is in tmpfs. It doesn't seem > to use much ram either. I really don't know of a reason why it couldn't > be set that way. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed tho. lol > > As for one of us setting it to do that manually, I guess one could do > that. If I recall correctly, /var/lock is *supposed* to be cleaned up > when booting but that was a good long while ago. This may be something > the devs are already getting ready for. I get the feeling that they are > taking what I call baby steps. I noticed a upgrade to baselayout and I > think OpenRC as well not long ago. I'm not sure what decided to put > stuff in /run. I would think it would be one of those but it could be > some other package. I guess udev could be one that could have made it > as well. It does have a directory in there that has stuff in it. The > rest are empty. > > I'd wait for a serious guru to reply before changing anything tho, just > to be safe. ;-) > > You think being up late at night is bad. You should see me when my meds > are making me goofy. lol > > Dale > > :-) :-)
I would try it right now, but a) the only proper 'desktop' I have running is a windows box, the rest of my systems, netbook, laptops, and servers, are stripped down to the bare essentials and are likely to continue skipping along smoothly for a long while regardless of what I do to them, hardly a useful test for something that could potentially cause catastrophic breakage for more 'normal' systems, and b) if it *did* break, I would dread it as I went about trying to remember my exact steps to get there after I wake up tomorrow, especially with the fact that I'm aiming to head to the office when I wake, rather than toy around with fixing things here at home. Maybe tomorrow evening on a couple systems, if the idea itself doesn't bring about any "don't do this, you'll break <x>" responses between now and then (and, depending on the severity of the potential breakage, may still have to poke it with a stick). -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
