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#1 2012-06-13 12:17:14
- awagner
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[solved] Non-root program to create subdir in /run/lock
Hi all,
I am using and maintaining (more or less) the program logcheck. When the program is run (e.g. by a cronjob) and the directory /var/run/logcheck is not already present, it creates it. Since the recent update of the filesystem package, the lock directory is symlinked to /run/lock, which is in a temporary mountpoint, so that on every reboot, the directory needs to be re-created. The problem is that the program, running under its own "logcheck" account, does not possess sufficient rights to create a directory in /run/lock.
Any ideas how I should approach this - perhaps even short of rewriting the program in order not to use this subdirectory? (I think in the past, I have manually created the directory once and chowned it to "logcheck" so that the program was using it fine all the time.)
TIA,
Andreas
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#2 2012-06-13 12:35:06
- falconindy
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#3 2012-06-13 12:55:00
- awagner
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Re: [solved] Non-root program to create subdir in /run/lock
Use tmpfiles.
Cool. I wasn't aware of this. Just to be sure: This will work even with plain old arch initscripts instead of systemd?
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#4 2012-06-13 15:55:25
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#5 2012-06-13 17:39:19
- awagner
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Re: [solved] Non-root program to create subdir in /run/lock
Great! Thanks for the advice (and for the tools of course). I will see to it that I include it in the next release of the logcheck package.
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