On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:47:37AM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: >>From the FHS: (v2.1, same section) >> Note: programs that run as non-root users may be unable to create files >> under /var/run and therefore need a subdirectory owned by the >> appropriate user. > So the package should provide /var/run/<package> for them to use? If so, it'd have to have similar permissions to /tmp, which is probably asking for trouble. The other extreme would be having directories like /var/run/aj/, which also seems like it's asking for trouble. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
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