Deleting a file/directory on startup
Casey Dahlin
cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
Mon Jan 14 22:27:45 UTC 2008
Till Maas wrote:
> On Mon January 14 2008, nodata wrote:
>
>
>> The directory that stores these files should be wiped at boot or on
>> shutdown..
>>
>
> Yes, this is where I search the best way to do this, except that I want that a
> directory is deleted. rc.sysinit does this only for some directories
> in /var/{run,lock}, e.g. for vmware.
>
> Regards,
> Till
>
The most correct way is to put some content in the lockfile to allow it
to be determined if it is valid. Then pm-utils itself can figure it out
when its run.
--CJD
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