[Bug 294852] Re: motion fails to start because /var/run/motion is missing

[torglut]

This bug still exists in 9.10

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"

This bug seams to be nearly the same as the one described here (for another package) :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zabbix/+bug/172775

- motion runs as uid "motion"
- /var/run is mounted as tmpfs
- /etc/motion/motion.conf defines "process_id_file /var/run/motion/motion.pid"
- /etc/init.d/motion defines "NAME=motion" and "PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid" (which is different)

A possible fix could be to modify /etc/init.d/motion to include :

(...)

case "$1" in
  start)
    if check_daemon_enabled ; then
        log_daemon_msg "Starting motion detection daemon : $NAME"
        ### BEGIN /var/run Fix
        MOTIONPIDDIR=/var/run/motion
        if test ! -d $MOTIONPIDDIR; then
            mkdir -p $MOTIONPIDDIR
            chown root:motion $MOTIONPIDDIR
            chmod 775 $MOTIONPIDDIR
        fi
        ### END /var/run Fix
        if start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --exec $DAEMON -b --chuid motion ; then
            log_end_msg 0
        else
            log_end_msg 1
            RET=1
        fi
    fi
    ;;

(...)

I don't know wether "$PIDFILE", defined in /etc/init.d/motion is used
anywhere or not.

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motion fails to start because /var/run/motion is missing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294852
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