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On 17 Feb 2005, at 9:41 pm, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
* Tim Cutts
| There's more to this than meets the eye. Yes, it's in the package, | but what happens if (as in my case) I have /var/lock and /var/run as | tmpfs filesystems?
Then you lose, basically.
Well, yes, as things stand at the moment. :-)
But seriously, I think people having /var/lock or similar in tmpfs is not that uncommon; imagine people running Linux on flash devices for example, or as in my case where they want the disk to be spun down as much as possible to conserve power and reduce heat.
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| So, the fix is probably to make sure that the mailman subdirectories | are there in the /etc/init.d/mailman script. | | mkdir -p /var/lock/mailman | chown list:list /var/lock/mailman | | is probably all that's required (and an equivalent for anything in | /var/run) | | Does that make sense?
Yes, but it's not something which you are guaranteed by policy or anything else, so you will most likely see random breakages like this.
I don't doubt it. mailman just happens to be the first package where I've noticed this. Perhaps it's something to suggest as a change to policy (post-sarge, obviously).
I'll perform a survey of packages and see just how many might be affected by this, and post to debian-devel.
I'll get this bug reopened (since it's archived) and made into a wishlist bug so I can do it when I get around to it.
Thanks. It's not exactly vital.
Tim
- -- Dr Tim Cutts
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