[26023] in Athena Bugs
athena linux 9.3.12: cleaning up /var/run
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Tue Aug 31 19:47:50 2004
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From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:46:59 -0400
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I don't think I've actually reported this yet... at boot time, the
linux startup scripts try to clean up /var/run. However, they don't
clean up files left by vmware. Apparently rc.sysinit even tries to
special-case vmware's files, but it doesn't do it correctly, at least
for current versions of vmware.
% du /var/run/vmware/
4 /var/run/vmware/raeburn/3865
4 /var/run/vmware/raeburn/vmx_3865
4 /var/run/vmware/raeburn/4958
4 /var/run/vmware/raeburn/vmx_4958
20 /var/run/vmware/raeburn
24 /var/run/vmware
%
The vmx_* directories have named pipes in them. The numeric-named
directories are empty.
Ken
