I seem to lose a subdirectory in /var/run every time I reboot. I hadn't noticed before, but /var/run appears to be a special filesystem of some sort. Is this a xen thing that gets rebuilt on boot? Is there something I need to do to get a subdir to autocreate (other than just slapping a line into an RC file)?

In my Ubuntu image:

varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)

It is a distro specific thing.

O I C. Weird that they do that different from debian. I guess this is technically a bug against the ubuntu package then.

/var/run is not meant to persist over reboots. See the FileSystem Hierarchy Standard doc
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3 ... RIABLEDATA

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Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

Nothing in that says that directories should be removed at boot, which is effectively what happens in ubuntu. I checked, and there already was a bug against the package. I just wrote something in rc.local to create the directory if it doesn't exist and give it correct perms.

Right, but since directories are just files (with a special bit set) the standard could be interpreted that way. FWIW RedHat (and thus CentOS, which I use) attempts to keep directories inside /var/run (but subdirectories of those may be lost). I wouldn't consider Ubuntu's behaviour a bug.

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Stephen

(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

nono, you misunderstand. Since ubuntu does it this way, any package that has a program that wants a subdir should check for/create that subdir if needed. This particular package does not. I checked for and found a bug against the particular package because it needs to be setup to make the subdir.

Oh, right. Yeah

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Stephen

(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)