/var/run/directory/

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Oct 4 15:09:15 UTC 2004


Russell Coker (russell at coker.com.au) said: 
> Below is the relevant section of the FHS.  It says that programs which use 
> more than one file are encouraged to use a sub-directory (IE Sendmail).  
> Doing the same for programs which only have a single file is not a major 
> break.

It says that pid files *must* be placed in /var/run, and that
subdirectories can be used for other process data, as I'm reading
it.

Bill




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