On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:13:24 -0600 Michael Cronenworth <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > Simplest way is just to include the directory in the RPM in the > > same way as you would if it was anywhere else in the filesystem. > > That caters for operation immediately after installation, and the > > tmpfiles script can re-create it on reboot. > > The /run/vnstat directory must also be owned by the vnstat user since > vnstat no longer runs as root. I'll pass this along to the maintainer > as a solution. > > > Is it actually necessary to do this? The default pidfile location > > appears to be /var/run/vnstat.pid and since on F15 /var/run is a > > symlink to ../run, the pid file should end up in the right place by > > default, should it not? > > When the vnstat service attempts to start as the vnstat user it will > be unable to create /var/run/vnstat.pid (a.k.a. /run/vnstat.pid) and > will exit. Ah, right, so you need a /run/vnstat directory owned by the vnstat user and to put the pidfile in that directory. How about using the vnstatd --pidfile option in the initscript rather than adding it into the config file? Paul. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
