...on 2022-03-21 21:31:25, Bob Proulx via Dng wrote: > Alexander Bochmann wrote: > > because it seems the whole tmpfiles.d stuff is a systemd thing > > all around, and probably isn't even used on Devuan? I got confused > It happens to all of us at times. No worries.
:) > However AFAIK the /var/lock/subsys directory is a Red Hat specific > directory such as found on RHEL and Fedora for use for their init > scripts. It doesn't have a use by other scripts. It is created by an Actually what brought me on this track turns out to be the init script for acct, which has: > LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/acct > [..] > touch $LOCKFILE This is in turn run each night from the acct cron.daily script which rotates the accounting log files and restarts the service, producing a message that /var/lock/subsys/acct can't be touched... > And then a piece of software meant for Red Hat would run happily > without knowing it was on Devuan. At least for this portion. Thanks for the detailed explanation! Alex. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
