[Mageia-dev] OpenVPN missing PID dir

Sun Nov 25 12:44:18 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Richard Couture at 23/11/12 20:44 did gyre and gimble:
+> While teaching a class in OpenVPN today I noted that urpmi does NOT
+> create the /var/run/openvpn directory which openvpn uses to write it's PID
+> 
+> This causes openvpn sufficient grief that it refuses to start...
+> 
+> My system uses MGA 2 with all updates applied
+
+This should be done with with systemd-tmpfiles these days (as mga3 is
+moving to /var/run and /var/lock on tmpfs) and IIRC the openvpn package
+in mga2 does this already.
+
+Looking more closely however, I can see a few packaging bugs:
+
+1. "systemd-tmpfiles --create" is not run in the %post (before
+add-service helper) (note that on cauldron the command must be:
+"systemd-tmpfiles --create openvpn.conf"). This means that you'll need a
+reboot before openvpn will work on mga2 after installing it.
+
+2. The tmpfile.d snippet is included in /etc/tmpfiles.d. This is wrong.
+It should be in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ (/etc is for admin overrides))
+
+With the fix in 1. or a simple reboot, it should be working fine. I'll
+see about adding the fix to an update package.
+
+Col
+
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