On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:57:57PM +0300, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> As gentoo switched to /var/run/ -> /run in tmpfs recently
> people got into problems [1] of missing directories like:
>     /var/run/screen/
>     /var/run/openfire/
>     /var/run/proftpd/
> they did bite me personally.
If the package has an init.d script, it should be doing creation of the
needed dirs. I know this doesn't help screen however.

> openrc-0.10 brought [2] basic support for systemd's tmpfiles'd:
> [2]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396003
>   http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/tmpfiles.d.html
Ok, missing functionality:
tmpfiles.sh:
- clean-up (age column)
- 'x' type (used only during clean-up to exclude locations from
  cleaning).

openrc:
When are the right times to call the tmpfiles code? Where in the early
boot for one, and what other times?

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