On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 11:00 +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > The problem is that some programs (apt-get, PolicyKit, etc.) store temporary > files in /var/run or /var/cache in their own subdirectories, but expect > something else to create these directories for them. I think we should require > these programs to create their own subdirectories at runtime. It is very > simple > to add an mkdir() command to these programs. If the directory already exists, > it is a no-op. > ...until such a program needs to run as non-root, and then mkdir() at runtime doesn't help anything. /var/run/PolicyKit/ is 770 root:polkituser, probably for this reason.
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