[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#501848: /var/run/aide/ missing

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Sun Aug 30 14:54:40 UTC 2009


tags #501848 - patch
tags #501848 confirmed pending
thanks

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:22:58AM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote:
> ---8<----
> premature termination - Daily AIDE report for $HOSTNAME
> The cron job was terminated because lock /var/run/aide/cron.daily.lock
> could not be obtained.
> ---8<---
> 
> Creating /var/run/aide/ and changing ownership via:
>  sudo mkdir /var/run/aide
>  sudo chmod root:adm /var/run/aide
> 
> This only works untill the next reboot.
> After a reboot the directory /var/run/aide is missing again.

The daily cron job in svn now creates /var/run/aide if it does not
exist. This makes aide compatible with Debian policy 3.8.0

The patch, of course, is of no use since it only makes the cron job
fail gracefully. The change made in svn makes the cron job work.

Greetings
Marc

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