On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/02/2013 13:49, Michael Mol wrote: >> 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. >> > > It's probably better to leave the symlink in place for now. What happens > when the user installs a package they have never had before and that > package uses /var/run? > > It will make a directory which isn't what you want.
Hm. lsof -n|grep /var/run|cut -d\ -f1|sort -u gives me acpid avahi-dae bluetooth cupsd dbus-daem gdm syslog-ng Of those, at least avahi and cups are emitting /var/run elogs, which tells me they're defaulting to using /var/run instead of /run, if /var/run is present. Obviously, the transition isn't finished yet...software should default to /run rather than /var/run, or the symlink can never be known to be safe to remove on a given system. > Better to leave the > symlink in place and train your eyes to ignore the elogs (something we > humans are extremely good at) Oh god no...Then you end up like some folks who get bit every time something changes (despite being warned about it for a months in advance). :) -- :wq
