On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:49:59 +0200 Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 15.07.10 15:43, Enrico Scholz > (enrico.scholz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > > Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > I suspect the biggest issue here is confined daemons, as they may > > > not have permissions to create their own directories in /var/run > > > > is this really an issue? upstart (and systemd probably too) work > > best with non forking daemons so that the pidfile hack is not > > needed anymore. > > systemd doesn't care about PID files. If daemons still write them it's > fine, but they don't matter. You are completely disregarding the case an admin starts daemons manually. Often pid files are checked so that an admin starting a daemon manually does not make a mess, if the daemon was already running. > I think what's more interesting here is socket creation in > /var/run. i.e. it's the primarily used place to put client > communication sockets of system daemons. Yes, this is indeed the case, there are daemons that create sockets in /var/run/<something> and they need to be abel to create those sockets with the correct permissions and selinux labels Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
