The behavior of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to delete all files in /var/run/*
(including /var/run/news/*)[1] leads to a possible loss of news articles.

/etc/rc.d/rc.news tries to detect a crashed innd by looking for
/var/run/news/innd.pid and recovers $ACTIVE then by using the "-r"
option[2]. But because rc.sysinit is deleting innd.pid _before_ $ACTIVE
will be renumbered, inconsistencies will be created.





[1]
# 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
      rm -f $afile/*
   else


[2]
##  Clean shutdown or already running?
if [ -f ${SERVERPID} ] ; then
    if kill -0 `cat ${SERVERPID}` 2>/dev/null; then
        echo 'INND is running'
        exit 0
    fi
    echo 'INND:  PID file exists -- unclean shutdown!'
    RFLAG="-r"
fi