Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 08:12:40PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I don't really understand this. >> The perl script wants to create /var/run/BackupPC/BackupPC.sock >> which it seems it cannot do unless /var/run/BackupPC/ exists. >> If as you say this disappears on re-booting, >> I don't see how this program could work. > The contents of the /etc/tmpfiles.d/BackupPC.conf file looks like > this: > > D /var/run/BackupPC 0775 root backuppc - > > If you create that file, you'll get the /var/run/BackupPC file when > you start up. I suggest filing a bug against the EPEL package if you > want to get it fixed there. Thanks very much for the explanation and suggestion. I've created that file, and will see what happens next time I re-boot. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos