Kristian Duus Østergaard writes:
On 2013-02-22 14:35, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Kristian Duus Østergaard writes: > >> Hi Sam, >>>> I've had to reboot a couple of times this last month and due to a change in>> Gentoo /var/run is now a link to /run which is a tmpfs filesystem.>> The problem is that /run is wiped on each boot - for good reasons - but this >> means that /run/courier is not created. When the directory is missing courier >> fails to start. Would it not be possible to put something like the following in>> the startup: >> >> if ( ! -d ${PIDFILE%/*} ) >> then >> mkdir -p ${PIDFILE%/*} >> fi > > Hopefully, that's all that your Gentoo package puts into /var/run. >> If your package uses the courier.sysvinit script, you can just stick a mkdir> -p in there, for now. > It's based off of your script but not identical - I'll see if I can make a sensible patch for Gentoo.The reason I raised it - is that it seems most distro's are moving to having /run or /var/run be a tmpfs filesystem.
That's fine. There are about half a dozen places where a pidfile gets created, so I'll have to touch all of them; but this is something you can hack in, quickly.
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