On Feb 10, 2013 3:29 AM, "Florian Philipp" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 10.02.2013 06:11, schrieb Grant: > > I received the following ELOG message after an emerge: > > > > * One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in order to > > * ensure that files installed via these symlinks remain accessible. This > > * indicates that the mentioned symlink(s) may be obsolete remnants of an > > * old install, and it may be appropriate to replace a given symlink with > > * the directory that it points to. > > * > > * /var/run > > > > Should I change anything? > > > > - Grant > > > > If my understanding of the situation is correct, we see this message > whenever a package is updated that in the old version installed to > /var/run and now has migrated to /run. > > Even if I'm wrong, there is nothing to be done. /var/run is intended to > be a symlink to /run. If it is, then all is fine. > > Regards, > Florian Philipp > >
Except we'll be seeing that elog to the end of time "lsof -n |grep /var/run" will tell you what, if anything running, is using that symlink.
