Dapper is mucking with my /var/run/ dirs

Mario Splivalo mario.splivalo at mobart.hr
Thu Jun 1 07:24:14 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 14:59 -0700, Carlos Picazzo wrote:
> On 5/31/06, Carlos Picazzo <ojaiguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've got some custom directories in /var/run/ and after upgrading to
> > dapper, I've noticed that those directories, for some reason, are
> > being removed automatically.  Now when my box comes back up, it starts
> > puking because it can't write to its normal file.  What's going on and
> > how can I fix this so it doesn't continue to happen?
> 
> Well, after a little more digging, it appears that /var/run in Dapper
> is a tmpfs and gets recreated at boot time.  Is there a config file
> where you can specify what dirs should get created and their perms?
> 

I have the same problem. Although I was stupid to set up something
permanently to /var/run, I'd also love to have old behaviour back. Did
you have luck with it?

	Mike





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