wpa_supplicant does not create pidfile

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On Friday, August 27, 2010 09:42:30 Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> 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.

Did you have a chance to try this? Given positive feedback I'd like to commit 
it.

-- 
Bernhard