Re: Warning: upcoming systemd issue: /var/run

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 20:23:08 -0400
Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:

> Wow.  I wonder what they think about the notion of / being readonly
> and /var being writable.  Back when I was growing up, I think we used
> separate partitions (on 2.8BSD!) for /, /var and /usr.  Certainly by
> 4.2BSD.

Don't look at me! Not my union, as they say in the film industry.

> 
> > So for Debian, and possibly some Ubuntus, it may be worthwhile some
> > time in the future to change that line to refer to /run.  
> 
> I guess this needs to be a --varrun= configure switch, to set the path
> to be used when /var/run ought to be, however you spell that in scons.

Can our resident scons expert build it into scons so we don't even need
the configure switch?

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