On Wed, 07.12.11 09:37, Michael Cronenworth (mike@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > The vnstat service has traditionally run as the root user. This was > fixed in Fedora 16 and higher to run as the vnstat user, but the same > fix was just introduced[1] into Fedora 15. There is a problem with this > fix in that it requires "systemd-tmpfiles" to be run to create the new > /run/vnstat directory required to store the pid file. This new directory > also required the /etc/vnstat.conf file to be changed as the PidFile > variable tells vnstat where to create the pid file. The end result is > that after a package update the service will fail to start unless they > manually create the /run/vnstat directory and update their config file. > Not a very nice requirement IMO. > > 1. Is it appropriate for the RPM to call systemd-tmpfiles or is there a > better way to create the new tmpfile directory? Yes, systemd-tmpfiles is considered part of the systemd ABI and thus stable and documented (systemd-tmpfiles(8)). If you want to run it from a spec file, do so with a command line like this: systemd-tmpfiles --create /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/vnstat.conf Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
