Tips on how to handle tmpfile changes

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Tue Dec 13 14:13:18 UTC 2011


On Wed, 07.12.11 09:37, Michael Cronenworth (mike at cchtml.com) wrote:

> The vnstat service has traditionally run as the root user. This was 
> fixed in Fedora 16 and higher to run as the vnstat user, but the same 
> fix was just introduced[1] into Fedora 15. There is a problem with this 
> fix in that it requires "systemd-tmpfiles" to be run to create the new 
> /run/vnstat directory required to store the pid file. This new directory 
> also required the /etc/vnstat.conf file to be changed as the PidFile 
> variable tells vnstat where to create the pid file. The end result is 
> that after a package update the service will fail to start unless they 
> manually create the /run/vnstat directory and update their config file. 
> Not a very nice requirement IMO.
> 
> 1. Is it appropriate for the RPM to call systemd-tmpfiles or is there a 
> better way to create the new tmpfile directory?

Yes, systemd-tmpfiles is considered part of the systemd ABI and thus
stable and documented (systemd-tmpfiles(8)). If you want to run it from
a spec file, do so with a command line like this:

systemd-tmpfiles --create /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/vnstat.conf

Lennart

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