wpa_supplicant does not create pidfile

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 07/09/2010 08:50, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> 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.
> 

Just had this idea, that it might be run, before the tmpfs is
mounted. Seems unlikely, though.

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