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 C70AC13896A for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B98E9E072D; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f48.google.com (mail-wg0-f48.google.com [74.125.82.48]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DC1EE06FD for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:41:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f48.google.com with SMTP id 16so3961440wgi.15 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 04:41:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UvHawzj9bb6AkS0DcW8OoiKNnehPjkQC+AsmojqeKxk=; b=VxG3YDlkkjvOEe+CkQHudgz6LSBGV+NjAcWipNp8897Fu8w7dIaUShS1BniGuDDZ7l ZOTycZyrcHHUjjwoKBUQTnilkXpMzG0ffyQdGK2YtOwafTU81LBSEG7E+PPHIcdWmQc1 dv4cM09jYd5C4P9rAVEbHP2Jao4sZmYzDzeyQxXQnNCL7FCCvJrb0jIh3n+WvgTSMJ5U dwVnPUotdBYQBOQOeiZQyanY4DX5/AAroB/0UMwXN8ng4uXEZU1SigBTTc6lnvYa0bGY gVmPEBZqUY5LQJYcWjyREUyDqGnu57TmON1w2NxldLImq7/49fO94nB4rhVZnBNi0b8d +yTQ== X-Received: by 10.194.178.33 with SMTP id cv1mr18548279wjc.46.1360500088976; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 04:41:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-215-209-80.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.209.80]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ex1sm26535119wib.7.2013.02.10.04.41.26 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 10 Feb 2013 04:41:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <51179534.4080308@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:40:20 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130114 Thunderbird/17.0.2 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run? References: <51175A29.3090002@binarywings.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8d5c250d-3a6e-46ca-80c7-ff3bd58ebf77 X-Archives-Hash: bf024c948d7e3468b81d5cc972ea0ea4 On 10/02/2013 13:49, Michael Mol wrote: > On Feb 10, 2013 3:29 AM, "Florian Philipp" 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. Better to leave the symlink in place and train your eyes to ignore the elogs (something we humans are extremely good at) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com