On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 05:51 -0200, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
Hi people!
I interested to make Arch Linux suitable for use with a /var/run and /var/lock that are mounted as tmpfs. But this also helps, in the case that not mounted as tmpfs, to make more simple "purge function" for these directories at rc.sysinit step.
In my case this is "just for fun!", but other users can be benefited by this, for example "netbook users".
OK, i initially created rc-script patches for the packages in the extra repo that use /var/run/program-name-directory and fails if not exists. (these list was obtained with """ for x in $(find /usr/share/pkgtools/lists -type f); do egrep -l "var/run/.+" $x;done """
@@NOTE@@: I will send the patches to the FL individualy per package now, reference to this email in FL, and then copy the links to response in this email. ;)
Please review it, thanks in advance. :)
** Actually work OK (/var/run) core/openswan-2.4.11-1 core/dbus-core-1.2.4-1 core/netcfg-2.1.2-1 extra/consolekit-0.3.0-3
** Patched RC files (/var/run) extra/apache-2.2.11-2 extra/bind-9.5.0.P2-1 extra/clamav-0.94-1 extra/courier-imap-4.4.1-1 extra/courier-mta-0.60.0-1 extra/cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-10 extra/fetchmail-6.3.8-4 extra/hal-0.5.11-7 (patched for policykit) extra/laptop-mode-tools-1.47-1 extra/lighttpd-1.4.20-2 extra/mpd-0.14.1-3 extra/policykit-0.9-7 (no rc-script here, patched in hal) extra/samba-3.2.7-1 extra/wicd-1.5.8-1
** Researched (/var/run) extra/iptraf-3.0.0-2 (Trivial patch for iptraf.c or using a profile.d/iptraf for creating a "iptraf()" or another solution)
* Apparently these don't use /var/run/program-name-directory, but maybe a simple "mkdir" to rc-script for precaution. extra/bftpd-2.3-1 (The daemon uses directly /var/run/bftpd.pid) extra/networkmanager-0.7.0-1 (The daemon uses directly /var/run/NetworkManager.pid)
extra/wesnoth-1.4.7-1 (this game don't have a rc-script for the daemon, if run the /usr/bin/wesnothd without /var/run/wesnothd it fails, solution: provide a rc-script)
** Pending for research (/var/run) community/pulseaudio-0.9.14-1 community/ultimate-ircd-3.0.2-1 community/xen-3.3.1-1 community/wdm-1.28-2 community/dspam-3.8.0-2 community/inn-2.4.5-3 community/gpsd-2.37-2 community/apache13-1.3.41-3 community/freeradius-2.1.3-1 community/lastfmsubmitd-0.35-1 community/selinux-pam-1.0.1-1 community/fail2ban-0.8.3-1 community/ircservices-5.0.62-3 community/p3scan-2.3.2-2 community/bind-geodns-9.4.1-1 community/jabberd14-1.6.1.1-3
** Pending for research (/var/lock) core/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-2 extra/sane-1.0.19-2
If this requires patching so many packages, and given the fact that /var/run on tmpfs is not default in archlinux, maybe you should try building /var/run from an initial directory or something like that. This is also what I use for my OpenBSD router which runs from compactflash and has /var mounted on ramdisk.