On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Tomasz Torcz wrote: >> I would really like to avoid having THREE places to create directories >> in /var/run and /var/lock, those being spec file, init scripts AND tmpfiles.d > > Scratch the initscript. This would mean initscript would need to > contain multiple > ExecStartPre=/sbin/mkdir --mode=777 /var/run/xx; /bin/chown x.x /var/run/xx; /sbin/restorecon /var/run/xx > lines, which look unwieldy. why not mkdir -p /var/run/xx or: [ ! -d /var/run/xx ] && mkdir -p /var/run/xx Can't selinux pickup things without a restorecon? And what is the problem another (root) process screwing over a pid or lock file? Can't SElinux lock that down from the /var/run level? > So we are left with tmpfiles.d and spec file. Could the spec file be replaced > by tmpfilesd invocation in %post? I'm still not convinced of tmpfiles.d. I'd like a package to be as system-start-system agnostic as possible. I don't want to know if it is systemd or upstart or initng or whatnot. Paul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel