Bug#191036: create /run for programs that run before /var is mounted
Hi Bill!
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:51:31PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Hi Bill!
> > > > > As per the discussion on debian-devel, I am filing this bug with patch
> > > > > to have base-files create the /run directory. To summarise the
> > > > > discussion, we need to move program state out of /etc but for some
> > > > > programs that run early on during the boot process, /var is not mounted
> > > > > and so /var/run is unavailable. Thus Debian will be enhancing the FHS
> > > > > by demonstrating it is possible to leave /etc totally under the admin's
> > > > > control. A proposed addition to the FHS will be forthcoming once we can
> > > > > show that /run is useful.
> > >
> > > I second this proposal.
> >
> > There is no proposal made yet. Where is the text you are seconding? :-)
>
> The proposal is to have base-files creating the /run directory,
> since base-files maintainer has reassigned the bug to debian-policy.
>
> If you something more formal, maybe
> ----
> As an extension to the FHS, the Debian filesystem has a /run directory
> intended to hold program state file for programs that run early during
> the boot process when /var is not yet mounted.
/run must be in the root filesystem, or it must be made available at the
time the root filesystem would be mounted in read-write mode. It must be
writeable.
Or something to that effect. Isn't that what you guys want?
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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