Bug#387699: exim4: Should create /var/run/exim4/ if it is missing

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-09-16 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
[...]
> Why, if the packages using /var/run/<directory>/ are updated to create
> these directories if they are missing after boot?  As far as I can
> see, there are not very many such packages including directories in
> /var/run/ as part of the package (crack and crack-md5 according to
> apt-file), and probably a few more creating a directory in the
> postinst.
[...]

Hello,
apt-file (and packages.d.o) will not help you, as Contents* only lists
files but not directories. I have used dpkg on merkel's mirror to
check for packages shipping /var/run or a subdirectory of /var/run in
the deb.

In sarge/main/i386+all there are 156 packages shipping /var/run and a
subset of 138 packages ships a subdirectory of /var/run. The lists
are on merkel:~ametzler/sargewithrun*
cu andreas
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