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freke
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:17 pm    Post subject: Directory symlink(s) may need protection (/var/run) Reply with quote

Hi,

Today a few packages updated on my mail-server - checking elogv afterwards reports the code below for both clamav and policyd-weight:

Code:
│Directory symlink(s) may need protection:                                                                         │
│                                                                                                                  │
│        /var/run                                                                                                  │
│                                                                                                                  │
│Searching all installed packages for files installed via above symlink(s)...                                      │
│                                                                                                                  │
│One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in order to                                               │
│ensure that files installed via these symlinks remain accessible. This                                            │
│indicates that the mentioned symlink(s) may be obsolete remnants of an                                            │
│old install, and it may be appropriate to replace a given symlink with                                            │
│the directory that it points to.                                                                                  │
│                                                                                                                  │
│        /var/run   


Anyone able to explain to me what I have to do to resolve this?
(I just noticed going through elogv that both clamav and policyd-weight actually told me this as far back as nov-2012, too)

-freke
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

freke,

/var/run has been moved to /run

Not all software has been updated yet so the symlink /var/run was made.
Its safe to leave it meanwhile in case you are using anything that references /var/run
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great, thanks guys, this is exactly what I wanted to know.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NeddySeagoon wrote:

/var/run has been moved to /run


Why? Who (which programs, or people) had problems with the pid-folder being /var/run?
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PostPosted: Sat May 04, 2013 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tox2ik wrote:

Why? Who (which programs, or people) had problems with the pid-folder being /var/run?


This may be a move by the Free Desktop org, rather than a response to a bug. They've made a number of changes in recent years to get away from historical/archaic filesystem layouts that aren't necessarily logical.

One example of such layouts, IIRC, is /bin, /sbin and /usr/bin. They were originally separate dirs because Dennis Ritchie's PDP-11 didn't have any individual disks large enough to put all executables in a single dir.
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PostPosted: Sat May 04, 2013 11:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thx for this historic view on this mess :)
Really time to tidy-up!
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But what about tradition...

(Just kidding)
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