Hi guys, With the next initscripts release there will be a few changes that should not be noticed by anyone, but I'd like to hear any feedback from people who might know of any problems: 1) /var/run and /var/lock will be cleared on reboot This change is implementing by making /var/{run,lock} symlinks to /run{,lock} which are tmpfs'. Previously, the directory structure under /var/run was preserved (everything else was deleted). In most cases this change does not matter, as the programs are able to recreate the needed folders on demand. However, there are a few exceptions. All packages in core and extra should be unaffected, and only two packages in community should be affected (I updated https://www.archlinux.org/todo/70/ to reflect this). For future reference, if a package, foo, relies on /var/run/foo existing, it should contain a file /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/foo.config: d /run/foo 0755 root root - 2) /etc/mtab will be a symlink to /proc/self/mounts To the best of my knowledge all users of /etc/mtab have been changed to deal with this change, and it should work well even with cifs, nfs and fuse. If I hear no objections I will soon move initscripts to [testing] and leave it in there for some time to catch any problems. Cheers, Tom