From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 07:18:57 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 E373D10656B1 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 07:18:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A7E38FC0A for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 07:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz20 with SMTP id 20so4698516bwz.13 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.54.72 with SMTP id p8mr3678856bkg.163.1283843925771; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jessie.localnet (p5B0E3EAE.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.14.62.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm4995398bkr.7.2010.09.07.00.18.44 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:18:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Bernhard Schmidt To: Dominic Fandrey Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:18:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.32-24-generic; KDE/4.4.2; i686; ; ) References: <4C716382.3040605@bsdforen.de> <201009070909.26304.bschmidt@techwires.net> <4C85E638.4070403@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <4C85E638.4070403@bsdforen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009070918.42959.bschmidt@techwires.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:18:58 -0000 On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 09:14:00 Dominic Fandrey wrote: > On 07/09/2010 09:09, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 09:01:18 Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >> On 07/09/2010 08:50, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > >>> On Friday, August 27, 2010 09:42:30 Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > >>>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:36, Dominic Fandrey > > > > wrote: > >>>>> On 27/08/2010 09:28, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > >>>>>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 19:50, Dominic Fandrey > >>>>>> > >>> > >>> wrote: > >>>>>>> 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. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> How about this? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Index: etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist > >>>>>> =================================================================== > >>>>>> --- etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist>.....(revision 211568) > >>>>>> +++ etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist>.....(working copy) > >>>>>> @@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ > >>>>>> > >>>>>> .. > >>>>>> ppp gname=network mode=0770 > >>>>>> .. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> + wpa_supplicant > >>>>>> + .. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> .. > >>>>>> rwho gname=daemon mode=0775 > >>>>>> .. > >>>>> > >>>>> Is the mtree built every time the system boots? Because my /var/run > >>>>> is a tmpfs. And even if it wasn't, I think it's wiped every boot > >>>>> any way. > >>>> > >>>> Not build but, according to /etc/rc.d/var mtree is run on every boot. > >>>> I actually tried that and it works just fine. > >>> > >>> Did you have a chance to try this? Given positive feedback I'd like to > >>> commit it. > >> > >> No, doesn't work. The named and ppp directories also don't exist. > >> > >> Sorry about the delay. > > > > Ok, thanks. > > > > Is it only /var/run/* that is wiped for you, or /var/* itself? I just > > checked > > > > rc.d/var and it looks like this: > > if [ -d /var/run -a -d /var/db -a -d /var/empty ] ; then > > > > true > > > > elif [ -x /usr/sbin/mtree ] ; then > > > > populate_var > > > > So.. if var/run does exist, populate_var isn't run. > > Only /var/run and /var/log are tmpfs (notebook, reduce HD access > to allow HD spindown). I wouldn't wipe my /var/db every boot. Ah, ok, that explains it. Try with populate_var=YES in rc.conf and it should create all directories under var/run. -- Bernhard