Memory semaphores?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Mark <admin at asarian-host.net> writes:

> I just installed Apache/1.3.28, and now I got a lot of files like these in
> /var/run/:
> 
> /var/run/httpd.mm.77920.sem
> 
> They look like memory management semaphores of some kind (from mm?). Can I
> safely delete these files, prior to staring the httpd daemon? I hate them
> cluttering up my /var/run/ dir.

I don't see anything like that, so I'm not sure why you are.
However, they should definitely be safe to remove when httpd isn't running...