mrtg: can't find lock directory after upgrade to dapper

[Pierfrancesco Caci]

Package: mrtg
Version: 2.12.2-1
Severity: normal


Hello,
mrtg uses a lock file under /var/lock/mrtg, but after upgrading to dapper,
this directory no longer exists since /var/lock is a tmpfs one now. 
Thus, mrtg refuses to start:

ERROR: Creating templock /var/lock/mrtg/_etc_mrtg.cfg_l_7263: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1645.
ERROR: Creating templock /var/lock/mrtg/_etc_mrtg.cfg_l_8389: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1645.

Manually recreating the directory fixes it, but it must be done at each reboot.

Maybe it could be added as a "@reboot" rule in the crontab file.

Thanks

Pf




-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers dapper-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'dapper-updates'), (500, 'dapper-security'), (500, 'dapper')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-23-amd64-k8
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages mrtg depends on:
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ii  libc6                   2.3.6-0ubuntu20  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgd2-xpm              2.0.33-2ubuntu5  GD Graphics Library version 2
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.8rel-5       PNG library - runtime
ii  libsnmp-session-perl    1.08-1           Perl support for accessing SNMP-aw
ii  perl                    5.8.7-10ubuntu1  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules            5.8.7-10ubuntu1  Core Perl modules
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3-6ubuntu4 compression library - runtime

mrtg recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  mrtg/own_user: true
* mrtg/conf_mods: true