varlock and varrun

[Derek Broughton]

Christoph Pleger wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:55:34 +0100
> Jack Wasey <ubuntu at jackwasey.com> wrote:
> 
>> > I assume that you simply do not have a separate partition for /var,
>> > but that it is on the root partition. But I have separate partitions
>> > for it, on my CD-installed system as well as on my
>> > debootstrap-installed system.
>> 
>> If you have a separate var, then you _should_ find that the root
>> partition nevertheless contains /var/lock and /var/run partitions.
>> This  means that the tmpfs mounts can occur against a bare root
>> partition,  then once /var is up, it sits side-by-side with the tmpfs
>> partitions.  /var should not have run and lock directories.
>> 
>> Hope that helps.
> 
> Yes, that did it. Thanks for your help.

And thanks for asking, because now I know what's wrong with my /var/run :-)
-- 
derek