/var/run/

Since I'm trying to remember how to work after the holidays :-) I'd
like to make a complaint.

The fact that Ubuntu changed to a tmpfs for /var/run sounds like a
great idea - you don't have to clean it up on boot up. Of course they
never bothered to change all the init scripts - the ones which put
their pid file in a directory. What does that mean? It means
programs fail to create their pid file on boot up, because the
directory (like /var/run/exim4/) doesn't exist.

This is something else I always forget to fix and then wonder why my
program isn't restarting properly. This morning I'm adding 'mkdir -p
${PIDFILE%/*}' to a bunch of init scripts.

Can anyone tell me if the latest version of ubuntu fixes this? One
day I just might have to file a bunch of bug reports. Of course do
you really need a directory to hold a single pid file? That could be
a better fix.
Received on Tue Jan 2 11:32:23 2007