On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:49:19AM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:36:48AM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > wrt /var/run on tmpfs, I recall packages installing daemons that expect > > their specific directories to be present in /var/run, and that do not > > play nice when that directory turns out empty, but we should be able to > > work around that by creating the directory in the init.d script before > > we execute the daemon. > > Yes. Some examples: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332633 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334245 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334437 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342049 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333783 >
I thought I'd mention, the way systemd handles this is with an extra service and configuration files in /etc/tmpfiles.d [1]. I am sure OpenRC could use the same tool[2] for that. [1] http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/tmpfiles.d.html [2] http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd-tmpfiles.html Thanks, Henry
