mysqld /var/run/mysqld

Here's the situation:



I'm running dapper. I installed mythtv and because mythtv
0.18 has some
issues with MySQL Server 5.0, I installed a parallel
instance of MySQL
4.1. So far so good.



I keep the socket file in /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock.
Here's the weird
part: every time I shut down my computer, /var/run/mysqld
gets deleted!
If I start MySQL (4.1) after the startup, it re-creates the
directory,
but what deletes it???



BTW, just shutting down MySQL doesn't delete that
directory...


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On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 21:41 +0100, gerases wrote:
> Here's the situation:
> 
> 
> 
> I'm running dapper. I installed mythtv and because
mythtv 0.18 has some
> issues with MySQL Server 5.0, I installed a parallel
instance of MySQL
> 4.1. So far so good.
> 
> 
> 
> I keep the socket file in /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock.
Here's the weird
> part: every time I shut down my computer,
/var/run/mysqld gets deleted!
> If I start MySQL (4.1) after the startup, it re-creates
the directory,
> but what deletes it???

/var/run and /var/lock are mounted as tmpfs filesystems, so
they are
effectively fast RAM drives. It reduces the amount of
shutdown cleanup
required, but it causes problems for packages that don't
recreate
their /var/run and /var/lock files/directories on startup...

mike

> 
> 
> BTW, just shutting down MySQL doesn't delete that
directory...
> 
> 
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> gerases
> 
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