Re: Ephemeral /var/run and creating port-specific subdir at service startup time

2016-08-31 Thread Roger Leigh
On 01/09/16 00:12, Mark Martinec wrote: I prefer to have a /var/run file system reside on a tmpfs as its contents is small and ephemeral in its nature (like pid files, lock files, sockets), need not be preserved across reboots, and should not have to depend on any physical disk. The problem is t

Ephemeral /var/run and creating port-specific subdir at service startup time

2016-08-31 Thread Mark Martinec
I prefer to have a /var/run file system reside on a tmpfs as its contents is small and ephemeral in its nature (like pid files, lock files, sockets), need not be preserved across reboots, and should not have to depend on any physical disk. The problem is that some programs/services/ports like to