Re: /run vs. /lib/run

[Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>]

Peter Samuelson wrote:
> That's a bug, IMO - they should mkdir -p in their init scripts if
> necessary.  It's not like that's hard to do.

Tim Cutts wrote:
> [...] In my case I was mounting /var/run  
> and /var/lock as  tmpfs filesystems all the time to reduce hard disk  
> access on a machine that was running all the time.


Ubuntu is already mounting tmpfs's on /var/lock and /var/run.  It's a
reasonable thing to do and we should support it.  That means that
packages using these directories should create any subdirectories they
need.

Don't forget to set ownership and permissions.
-- 
Thomas Hood