[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#491059: initscripts: Please don't delete /var/run/portmap.pid in bootclean.sh

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-07-16 11:37 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Sven Joachim]
>> In order to fix #490985 it is necessary to have a
>> /var/run/portmap.pid file, and since mountnfs-bootclean.sh runs
>> after portmap that means it must not delete that file.  The
>> following patch against /lib/init/bootclean.sh achieves this:
>
> Hm, I suspect this is the wrong solution.  I wonder why /var/run/ is
> cleaned after NFS is mounted.

As we discussed on initscripts-ng-devel, it is due to an incorrect
dependency in bootmisc.sh.

>  As far as I know, we do not support /var/run/ mounted on NFS.

Do you have evidence for that?  I very much hope it is true, since my
fix for #490985 will break badly if /var/run is mounted after portmap
has started.

> Perhaps the fix is to drop that cleaning after NFS is mounted?

That does not seem necessary.

> I wonder why innd.pid is handled specially.  According to #272066, it
> was present in 2005.  I find nothing about it in the changelog. :( I
> suspect we want to skip all *.pid, not just innd.pid and portmap.pid,
> if we are going to skip pid files.

I think we should not skip any of them, because any daemon that needs a
pidfile in /var/run needs to depend at least on $local_fs, and
preserving pidfiles after a reboot is rather pointless.

Cheers,
       Sven