On 2018-02-27 13:40 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 01:38:08PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> No /run is indeed a link to /var/run, whish is real, so we're good there. >> Being sorta forced to learn newer stuff after half a decade on nice >> stable wheezy has spoilt me. > > Even on wheezy, that is not normal. > > ebase@ebase-adm:~$ cat /etc/debian_version > 7.11 > ebase@ebase-adm:~$ ls -ld /var/run /run > drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 920 Jan 29 08:19 /run > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 23 2013 /var/run -> /run
Indeed, the initscripts package in wheezy went to great lengths to ensure that /var/run is a symlink to /run. Having it the wrong way around was only really possible if you never rebooted, e.g. in a chroot. Cheers, Sven