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Re: Origin of /var/run contents

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Origin of /var/run contents
Date 2018-03-05 16:10 +0100
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On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 12:09:54PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 03 March 2018 11:14:34 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> > Gene Heskett:
> > > Didn't anyone think of the stuff that runs as a user?
> >
> > They did.  They gave you a /run/user/$UID directory owned by you, and
> > an XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable whose value points to it that
> > you use so that its location is configurable.  They also gave you a
> > manual entry.
(snip)

> I don't believe it was documented, or even existed at the time I moved my 
> stuff. This machine, and 3 others here, running linuxcnc, are still 
> wheezy. One experimental install on a pi is running jessie.

All of the stuff Jonathan is describing is from systemd, which basically
means jessie and later.

Wheezy used sysvinit and related pacakges, not systemd.

Jessie does have the file-hierarchy(7) man page that Jonathan mentioned.
Note that the first sentence in this man page mentions systemd.

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Origin of /var/run contents Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2018-02-27 12:10 +0100
  Re: Origin of /var/run contents "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton@gmx.net> - 2018-02-27 12:50 +0100
    Re: Origin of /var/run contents Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2018-02-27 14:00 +0100
    Re: Origin of /var/run contents Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-02-27 18:50 +0100
      Re: Origin of /var/run contents "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton@gmx.net> - 2018-02-27 19:30 +0100
        Re: Origin of /var/run contents Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-02-27 19:40 +0100
          Re: Origin of /var/run contents Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-02-27 19:50 +0100
          Re: Origin of /var/run contents Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-02-27 19:50 +0100
            Re: Origin of /var/run contents Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2018-02-27 20:00 +0100
        Re: Origin of /var/run contents Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2018-02-27 20:10 +0100
        Re: Origin of /var/run contents David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-02-27 20:30 +0100
          Re: Origin of /var/run contents "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton@gmx.net> - 2018-02-27 21:00 +0100
            Re: Origin of /var/run contents David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-02-28 01:20 +0100
        Re: Origin of /var/run contents Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2018-02-27 22:20 +0100
          Re: Origin of /var/run contents Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2018-02-28 09:50 +0100
            Re: Origin of /var/run contents Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2018-02-28 12:50 +0100
  Re: Origin of /var/run contents Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2018-02-27 12:50 +0100
    Re: Origin of /var/run contents Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-02-27 18:20 +0100
      Re: Origin of /var/run contents Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-02-27 19:20 +0100
        Re: Origin of /var/run contents Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-02-27 19:30 +0100
        Re: Origin of /var/run contents Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2018-02-27 20:10 +0100
      Origin of /var/run contents Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2018-03-03 17:40 +0100
        Re: Origin of /var/run contents Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-03-03 18:20 +0100
          Re: Origin of /var/run contents Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-03-05 16:10 +0100
            Origin of /var/run contents Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2018-03-07 00:50 +0100
              Re: Origin of /var/run contents deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-03-07 08:00 +0100
              Re: Origin of /var/run contents Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-03-07 14:40 +0100
  Re: Origin of /var/run contents Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-02-27 18:10 +0100
  Re: Origin of /var/run contents Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2018-03-03 16:50 +0100

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