This is an embarrasement in Linux world.
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Title:
Cannot make directory '/var/run/screen': Permission denied (convert
init to
I have the following line in my crontab
@reboot sleep 20 screen -d -S syncthing -m syncthing
I added a 20 second delay to avoid race conditions, but from the last 4
boots, I have a mail that says -
Cannot make directory '/var/run/screen': Permission denied
What possibly changed with my sleep?
NOTE - the issue is easily fixed (at least for me). I want to run my
minecraft script (like others that seem to find this thread just like I
did) which requires screen. However the default priority for my script
would be the same (i.e. 20) as the one for screen (which also is going
to be in the
Mmm.. and don't forget to remove the old defaults for your script first.
(as in: update-rc.d minecraft remove)
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Title:
Cannot
I also suffer from this issue. No workaround or fix is working for me
a.t.m. I'm on 14.04.2
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Title:
Cannot make directory
Same problem here. I have several machines that run screen -d -m from
an @reboot crontab entry and they all get the error at every boot.
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: screen (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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this also affects me, i'm running Xubuntu 14.04.1. I expect screen to launch
from an init script that I have setup which is here
http://paste.ubuntu.com/9029872/ but I see in /var/log/boot.log that it can't
create the screen session, it returns
Cannot make directory '/var/run/screen':
