2001-06-15 Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@gnu.org>

	* rc: Apply patch from Moritz Schulte <moritz@chaosdorf.de> to
	be more selective with what to clean from /var/run.

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/debian/ChangeLog b/debian/ChangeLog
index da6dbe37..a20f2e53 100644
--- a/debian/ChangeLog
+++ b/debian/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-06-15  Marcus Brinkmann  <marcus@gnu.org>
+
+	* rc: Apply patch from Moritz Schulte <moritz@chaosdorf.de> to
+	be more selective with what to clean from /var/run.
+
 2001-04-29  Marcus Brinkmann  <marcus@gnu.org>
 
 	* changelog: Update to reflect Debian upgrades.
diff --git a/debian/rc b/debian/rc
index 416f6d01..f623aeb9 100755
--- a/debian/rc
+++ b/debian/rc
@@ -77,9 +77,19 @@ if test -d /tmp; then
   unset -f remove_translators  # because it relies on nullglob
 
 fi
+
 if test -d /var/run; then
-  (cd /var/run && { rm -rf -- *; cp /dev/null utmp; chmod 644 utmp; })
+  (cd /var/run && {
+    find . ! -type d ! -name utmp ! -name innd.pid ! -name random-seed \
+      -exec rm -f -- {} \;
+    cp /dev/null utmp
+    if grep -q ^utmp: /etc/group
+    then
+	chmod 664 utmp
+	chgrp utmp utmp
+    fi; })
 fi
+
 echo done
 
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