There was a very good reason why uuid state files were in /var/lib/libuuid instead of /var/run/uuidd. Some distributions wipe all of /var/run on reboot. The problem is for security reasons uuidd has to run as the libuuid user --- and the problem is directory needs to be set up correctly with the right permissions so it can written by the setuid libuuid daemon. So if you are going to move files into /var/run/uuidd, on at least some distributions, util-linux-ng will also have to provide init scripts to set up the directory correctly each time at boot. By placing those files in /var/lib/libuuid, it avoided this problem. A similar issue is why the clock state file is in /var/lib instead of /var/run. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
