/var/run questions

[Richard Barry]

No replies!  Ok, let me give the short version of the question:
How do I run a script as root on startup?  Is /etc/rcS.d/ the best/only way?

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From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Richard Barry
Sent: 21 February 2006 15:15
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
Subject: /var/run questions



I'm trying to use davfs2 to mount a webdav directory locally.  After I
install davfs2 I can mount, but after the first reboot I get a message:

/usr/lib/mount.davfs-2.6: Could not open pid-file 

After some investigating I found out that davfs2 wants to create a pid file
in /var/run/mount.davfs . mount.davfs is created by the installer, but after
I reboot it disappears.  Now my question is:  Why is it removed?  What
manages the /var/run dir? Can I stop it from being removed somehow?  If not,
I would be able to get it working if I could run the following as root when I
boot up:

$ mkdir /var/run/mount.davfs 
$ chown root.users /var/run/mount.davfs 
$ chmod 1774 /var/run/mount.davfs 

What is the best way to do that?  Should I create a script in /etc/rcS.d/ to
execute these commands or is there a better way to run scripts as root on
startup?

Thanks, 
Richard 

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