From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54CE4138968 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:15:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2CDC21C124; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:14:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506AC21C11F for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:14:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3CA8680147 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:14:50 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:14:45 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run? Message-ID: <20130210131445.3ae1affd@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <51175A29.3090002@binarywings.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0cvs60 (GTK+ 2.24.14; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/SLe8is1zL99Tl4KJMiux6e9"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: e278e42d-95b3-4138-8a45-7daa2a513792 X-Archives-Hash: d15854278ff05ea8bfbb51a5b9fab1c4 --Sig_/SLe8is1zL99Tl4KJMiux6e9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 06:49:59 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > 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. > Except we'll be seeing that elog to the end of time Not once all package have migrated, if Florian's understanding is correct. > "lsof -n |grep /var/run" will tell you what, if anything running, is > using that symlink. It won't tell you about services that have written a pidfile in that directory and then closed the file. Try grep -r /var/run /etc/init.d --=20 Neil Bothwick Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. --Sig_/SLe8is1zL99Tl4KJMiux6e9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlEXnUkACgkQum4al0N1GQPZJACfVI6mG0S382tszebE417eAZU1 w7wAn0BbQera+V/6cXA5uvU3aunxoTay =ZG/x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/SLe8is1zL99Tl4KJMiux6e9--