Re: How to get rid of dir-or-file-in-var-run?
markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> writes:
> I maintain masqmail, a mail transfer agent. It stores files in
> /var/run. Now I have this lintian warning: dir-or-file-in-var-run.
>
> Unfortunately, I dont know how to get the warning disappear.
>
> I checked the init script. It creates the /var/run/masqmail on
> startup. Also comments and changelog entries state that one former
> maintainer worked on exactly the issue (/var/run being a temp file
> system).
>
> Now, I also removed the `/var/run/masqmail' line from debian/dirs, but
> still the lintian warning appears.
Check the contents of your package. For some reason, the package still
contains the directory even though you've removed it from debian/dirs.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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