cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d var

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Wed Mar 2 16:24:06 GMT 2005


On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:47:38AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:59:47PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:46:47PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:08:15PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > > +> brooks      2005-03-01 22:08:15 UTC
> > > +> 
> > > +>   FreeBSD src repository
> > > +> 
> > > +>   Modified files:
> > > +>     etc/rc.d             var 
> > > +>   Log:
> > > +>   - Remove the dependency of /usr/bin/touch by using "cp /dev/null <target>"
> > > +>     to create /var/log/lastlog.
> > > 
> > > Isn't 'echo -n > <target>' a better choice?
> > 
> > Perhaps.  I copied the example in etc/rc.d/cleanvar (except without the
> 
> Speaking of which, is there any reason we can't merge var and cleanvar?
> It isn't intuitive that providing a proper var is split up like this.

That's probably a good idea eventually.

-- Brooks

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