Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> writes: > I don't know for proftpd, but a daemon can use an empty directory in > /var/run to chroot into it. Seems like a good use for /var/lib to me. There's no reason that I can see to put such a directory on a file system that's defined as transient. -- Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>