[Gllug] /var/run on tmpfs

[Troy Jendra]

Hi

When running a system with /var/run on tmpfs, is there a preferred
method of creating /var/run/dirname.  At least on Ubuntu, most
packages are creating this directory as part of their init.d script,
but every package seems to go about it a different way, and some are
still don't and fail to start on reboot(ie wackamole).

from /etc/init.d/exim4
[ -e /var/run/exim4 ] || \
    install -d -oDebian-exim -gDebian-exim -m750 /var/run/exim4

from /etc/init.d/fail2ban
[ -d /var/run/fail2ban ] || mkdir -p /var/run/fail2ban

and the syslog error for wackamole on reboot
 Cannot write PID file /var/run/wackamole/wackamole.pid

Cheers
Troy
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