Dapper is mucking with my /var/run/ dirs

Carlos Picazzo ojaiguy at gmail.com
Wed May 31 21:59:37 UTC 2006


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?




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