On 29/01/19 11:56 pm, Vieri wrote: > Hi, > > My Linux distro warns me that when trying to install Squid an attempt is made to write to a "volatile" dir. > > The Makefile in the src subdir contains: > > $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)`dirname $(DEFAULT_PID_FILE)` > > The default PID file being /run/squid.pid, the above tries to make the /run dir. > > Is it necessary to keep this in the Makefile? > Yes. The path is configurable with --with-pidfile=PATH, so it can be absolutely anywhere. > Shouldn't the /run/* files be created at runtime anyway? > > The /run dir is also created by the OS. The Squid default path for this file is $localstatedir/run/squid.pid as specified by older versions of FHS. It is not clear whether your local state dir is '/' or the above option is being used to place it exactly. Normally these would expand to /var/run/squid.pid. It would help to have a hint about what OS you are using and what ./configure parameters you used. Please be aware that Makefile are auto-generated. Only a small portion of their contents is anything we wrote and attempts at patching can be erased midway through a build by the toolchain detecting files as out of sync with the actual source. Amos _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
