Am 10.02.2013 17:46, schrieb [email protected]: > Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/02/2013 17:29, [email protected] wrote: >>> I had to actually prevent the migration to /run by changing the >>> boot.misc script because if I do not do that, a number of subdirectories >>> which I had created in /var/run were not in /run and a number of apps >>> would not start properly and indeed it is not taking much space, so I am >>> not sure why anyone bothered. The only other option would have been to >>> write something to fix the /run, but that was not what I wanted to do. >>> /var/lock had this same problem also. >> >> Why would you do that? >> >> /var/run is broken as the destination folder for what is intended to go >> in it, and it has been broken since day 1: >> >> /var/run is only available once /var is available or mounted. >> The contents of /var/run are often needed before /var is mounted. >> /run is the correct place for this. >> >> Problems with the migration are solved using the mv command > > But when I let the migration happen -- which was something udev or > openrc did -- then certain things in my runlevels would not start > because subdirectories in /var/run which were needed were missing and > had t o have correct owners and permissions. /var/lock needed certain > subdirectories also such as news. Only way to get them to work under > /run would be to have a script to run after boot.misc which created all > the subdirectories and fixed all the owners and permissions which is a > lot more work -- and it would of course have to be done on each reboot. > >
Are these init scripts from packages in the official tree, something you wrote yourself or some third-party package? In the first case, check if the problem persists (I bet it's fixed now) and file a bug report. In the second case, the best approach is to patch your scripts to use the `checkpath` command (see `man runscript`) to ensure that the expected paths exist. Regards, Florian Philipp
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