From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 22 18:19:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD84210656A6 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:19:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700458FC1B for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:19:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mobileKamikaze.norad (HSI-KBW-078-042-098-160.hsi3.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de [78.42.98.160]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD988A2511 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:50:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C716382.3040605@bsdforen.de> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:50:58 +0200 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100722 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: wpa_supplicant does not create pidfile X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:19:29 -0000 wpa_supplicant doesn't create the pidfile if the target directory does not exist. Because /var/run is wiped with every boot I added the following line to my rc.local to workaround this issue: /bin/mkdir -p /var/run/wpa_supplicant I'm running RELENG_8. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?