Re: [gentoo-user] openrc start-stop-daemon problem

Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 09 Jun 2015 15:46:39 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> > Hi.  I am having a problem with openrc 16.4 where start-stop daemon
> > complains like this fopen /var/run/<some service> (happens to almost all
> > of them)  no such file or directory, but -- using the interactive
> > feature -- I see that the pid file is actually is there.  /var/run is a
> > simlink to /run which is a tmpfs file system.  It looks like permissions
> > are correct as well, so I have no idea why this is happening.  When the
> > system shuts down, start-stop-daemon still complains and has some other
> > way to find the process,  but its still annoying.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> Not sure why this is happening, but I have noticed the same with some
> applications (ipsec-tools springs to mind).  I think it started when /var/run,
> /var/lock and /dev/shm (? not sure) were moved over to /run/*.
>
> I assumed that this is because some package maintainers may have not caught up
> with the fs change yet.
I also notice that many  files still use runscript and have not fixed
the name change for that.



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