[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#406685: initscripts: RAMRUN, RAMLOCK vars/opts are undocumented

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Paolo]
> while looking at an issue with tmpfs, to have /var/run *not* tmpfs,
> I was suggested to check vars in subj but could not find any info on
> that ( expect inspecting the code itself, of course).

'man 5 rcS' should give you some documentation.  Where did you look?

> Also - not sure whether the culprit is this pkg - but on netinstall
> seems that /var/run defaults to a tmpfs (this is how it gets set in
> fstab), which break several pkgs that won't restart on boot anymore.

Neither /var/run nor /var/lock are currently mounted as tmpfs by
default in Debian.  Any idea how they could become that for you?  I
know Ubuntu mount these are tmpfs.  Could that be related?

Friendly,
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Petter Reinholdtsen