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freke l33t
Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 963 Location: Somewhere in Denmark
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:17 pm Post subject: Directory symlink(s) may need protection (/var/run) |
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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: │
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│ /var/run │
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│Searching all installed packages for files installed via above symlink(s)... │
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│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. │
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│ /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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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54099 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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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 _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
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RAPHEAD Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 134 Location: Germany
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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Great, thanks guys, this is exactly what I wanted to know. |
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tox2ik n00b
Joined: 15 Jun 2009 Posts: 15
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Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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NeddySeagoon wrote: |
/var/run has been moved to /run
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Why? Who (which programs, or people) had problems with the pid-folder being /var/run? |
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r250r n00b
Joined: 22 Nov 2012 Posts: 3 Location: Indiana
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Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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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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RAPHEAD Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 134 Location: Germany
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Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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thx for this historic view on this mess
Really time to tidy-up! |
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lostinspace2011 Apprentice
Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 230
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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But what about tradition...
(Just kidding) |
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