Bug 97575
| Summary: | rc.sysinit errors on sub-subdirectories in /var/run | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Chris Ricker <chris.ricker> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | p.van.egdom, rvokal, tpot |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-09-30 19:02:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Subdirectories in /var/run are encouraged for programs that use more than runtime file, at least according to the FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-5.13.html BTW, this bug is still present in RHEL4U1. |
Some third-party applications create sub-sub-directories in /var/run for tracking state. For example, VMware makes /var/run/vmware/$user for every user that runs it, then stores state for each user in those directories. This causes errors when the system boots up and rc.sysinit is processed. I get rm: cannot remove '/var/run/vmware/cricker': Is a directory when the block: for afile in /var/lock/* /var/run/* ; do if [ -d "$afile" ]; then case "`basename $afile`" in news|mon) ;; sudo) rm -f $afile/*/* ;; *) rm -f $afile/* ;; esac else rm -f $afile fi done in rc.sysinit runs It looks to me like the *) rm -f $afile/* ;; stuff needs to make sure that it's a file, not a dir, that's being removed (or else misguided third-party vendors need fixing, but that's a whole 'nother matter ;-)