Dapper is mucking with my /var/run/ dirs
Mario Splivalo
mario.splivalo at mobart.hr
Thu Jun 1 08:58:38 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 10:32 +0200, nodata wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 14:59 -0700, Carlos Picazzo wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> If an ubuntu package relies on /var/run/SOMEDIR, and it's not there, you
> need to report this as a bug. But I don't think this is your problem.
>
> If the script you are calling has an /etc/defaults/NAME file, you can
> cheat (and this is a horrible, horrible hack), and do a mkdir
> /var/run/BLAH in it.
>
> If it doesn't have one of those, then you've probably written the init
> script, and can update that instead.
>
Actually my stupidness come to notice, so I changed my configuration and
put stuff previously in /var/run to /var/local/myappdata.
Mike
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