Re: Deleting a file/directory on startup

[Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin ncsu edu>]

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