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Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:55:41 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run?
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On 10/02/2013 17:29, covici@ccs.covici.com 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
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com