Bug 26294

Summary: Error in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Walter Mueller <walter.mueller>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 7.1CC: rvokal, walter.mueller
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Description Walter Mueller 2001-02-06 10:30:40 UTC
booting fisher (and also guinness) gives the error messages 

rm:   /var/run/mon/log.d is a directory
rm:   /var/run/mon/state.d is a directory

line 544 in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit reads 
...
# Clean up /var
# I'd use find, but /usr may not be mounted.
for afile in /var/lock/* /var/run/*; do
   if [ -d "$afile" ]; then
      [ "`basename $afile`" != "news" -a "`basename $afile`" != "sudo" ] &&
rm -f $afile/*
   else
      rm -f $afile
   fi
done
...

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-02-06 18:00:38 UTC
Will be fixed in 5.62-1.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-04-10 01:46:04 UTC
*** Bug 35396 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***