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cleanvar: Be more careful when cleaning up /var.

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cleanvar: Be more careful when cleaning up /var.

The cleanvar script uses find -delete to remove stale files under /var,
which could lead to unwanted removal of files in some unusual scenarios.
For example, when a mounted fdescfs(5) is present under /var/run/samba/fd,
find(1) could descend into a directory that is out of /var/run and remove
files that should not be removed.

To mitigate this, modify the script to use find -x, which restricts the
find scope to one file system only instead of descending into mounted
file systems.

PR: 269213
MFC after: 1 week

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delphijAuthored on Feb 13 2023, 4:56 AM
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rG81b9905234e3: man5/rc.conf.5: document utx_enable variable.
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