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On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 04:27:10PM +0000, Simon wrote:
Hi All,
Using Debian 8 and I'd like to run rsnapshot as a regular (non-root)
user but it doesn't have permissions to drop the pid file in
/var/run.
I created a directory called rsnapshot in /var/run with the
appropriate permissions which, I thought, fixed the problem.
Unfortunately, I now realise that the dir I created gets removed
upon a reboot.
Could someone let me know the correct way create an
application-specific directory in /var/run (if that is the right
thing to do).
It seems to be that since a while, all those /run, /var/run etc. are on
tmpfs anyway; the init machinery is supposed to set up the necessary
subdirectories [1] [2].
This doesn't help you in your case, I guess, because you want to run
rsnapshot "ad hoc". My gut feeling would be to set things up in a
well-known sub-directory of the user's home, on the theory that this
is the space the user controls.
Either just ~/.rsnapshot, or ~/.backup, or if you want to go the full
Freedesktop Monty, have a look at [3] (they specify /run/user for
that; there's no such thing in my system, but my system is somewhat
Freedesktop hostile by explicit choice, so that might be just a
consequence of that. Perhaps going the systemd way fixes that).
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/RunDirectory#Policy
[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit
[3] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html
Regards
- -- tomás
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