Bill Davidsen writes:
Tim wrote: > Bruno Wolff III: >>> /var/run is now a tmpfs so data there will be lost at each reboot. > > Sam Varshavchik:>> Splendid. Aside from the fact that inn's startup script does not get invoked>> correctly by initscripts, if you do invoke it correctly you also discover >> that it expects /var/run/news to be there, otherwise it bombs. > > Hmm, is it right or wrong for *anything* to expect the contents > of /var/run to remain after a reboot? > There is a benefit to cleaning out the lock files, but there is a definiteproblem to cleaning out everything, since the directory structure is needed to support the lockfiles. Having the program create the structure is possible, but:- it moves complexity from the install to the program
Only if "program" includes the packaged initscript. If the main app expects to see something persistent in /var/run, but its state does not really persist across reboots and there's not a lot of stuff there, the fix seems to be easily doable in the initscript. In this case, the initscript is fixed fairly easily by mkdiring /var/run/news itself, and setting the right environment variable to keep /etc/rc.d/init.d/function from pulling the rug out from under my feet.
Having the initscript recreate what the app expects in /var/run seems to be the obvious solution that does not require patching upstream source. Although I have sufficient spare cycles now, I anticipate that I won't in the future, and I don't want to take inn myself just to have to abandon it later.
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