/var/run/shibboleth musings

[Kristof BAJNOK]

On Tuesday 03 February 2009 Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> /var/run/shibboleth is part of the libapache2-mod-shib2 package.
> Shibd stores its pid file, communication socket and cached metadata
> files there.  However, /var/run can be a tmpfs (it's an option in
> /etc/default/rcS), which means that this directory may be missing on
> reboot (I guess it still doesn't make it RC, though; or does it?)

If the /var/run/shibboleth directory is missing, /etc/init.d/shibd start 
fails silently but returns success. That's a wierd error from a user's 
perspective and requires some experience to handle.

The fix is a 3-liner, absolutely obvious and can possibly avoid a number of 
future user complaints. 

Just my 0.02 € :)
Kristof
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Kristof BAJNOK
Systems Engineer / Middleware
NIIF / Hungarnet
Hungary