wpa_supplicant does not create pidfile

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 27/08/2010 09:28, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 19:50, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> wrote:
>> wpa_supplicant doesn't create the pidfile if the target directory
>> does not exist. Because /var/run is wiped with every boot I added
>> the following line to my rc.local to workaround this issue:
>>
>> /bin/mkdir -p /var/run/wpa_supplicant
>>
>> I'm running RELENG_8.
> 
> How about this?
> 
> Index: etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist
> ===================================================================
> --- etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist>.....(revision 211568)
> +++ etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist>.....(working copy)
> @@ -64,6 +64,8 @@
>          ..
>          ppp             gname=network mode=0770
>          ..
> +        wpa_supplicant
> +        ..
>      ..
>      rwho            gname=daemon mode=0775
>      ..

Is the mtree built every time the system boots? Because my /var/run
is a tmpfs. And even if it wasn't, I think it's wiped every boot
any way.

Regards

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