wpa_supplicant does not create pidfile

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:36, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> wrote:
> 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.

Not build but, according to /etc/rc.d/var mtree is run on every boot.
I actually tried that and it works just fine.

-- 
Bernhard