/var/run/shibboleth musings

[Russ Allbery]

Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> writes:

> How should we best handle this?  By patching configs/shibd-debian.in in
> the source tree to mkdir -p @-PKGRUNDIR-@ before starting the daemon?

I think this is the right approach.

> Or by explicitly setting RUNDIR=@-PKGRUNDIR-@ at the top and having
> PIDFILE=$RUNDIR/$NAME.pid and later mkdir -p $RUNDIR for easier
> configuration?  Or should we hardcode RUNDIR=/var/run/shibboleth as the
> Policy dictates and fail early on any upstream change?

This path is generated by Autoconf, so this shouldn't be a problem, I
think.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>