init.d/bootmisc: create /run/user

[stacyharper]

This is needed for some pam services that create the user XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. By example dumb_runtime_dir require the RUNTIME_DIR_PARENT to be present first.

Fixes: #658

[vapier]

missing quoting

[stacyharper]

Nice catch

[vapier]

we should stick to /run/user, not /var/run

[stacyharper]

okay

[stacyharper]

Can I have some news about this? Its been some months and I still would like for this directory to exists thanks to openrc.

[stacyharper]

This is an humble bump. Someone could give a review please?

[zyxhere]

Happy 1 year birthday!

[N-R-K]

Looks like alpine (unlike gentoo) doesn't really mandate a tmpfiles.d provider. Shame, since your usecase would've been much better served by it, something as simple as:

$ cat /etc/tmpfiles.d/dumb-xdg.conf
d /run/user 0755 root root -

But anyways, I kinda don't like this change. /run/user is systemd/elogind specific convention. And it's weird to halfass it and only create the basedir but not the user dirs.

It'd be more acceptable (to me, at least) if bootmisc just accepted some additional list of dir from conf.d to create. Something like this:

# conf.d/bootmisc
# ...
# additional directories to create, one per line, `-p` is implicit.
additional_mkdir="
-m 0755 /run/user
-m 1777 /tmp/mydir
"

The arguments can just be fed to mkdir(1) directly. Though mkdir(1) doesn't support owner/group so if that's necessary then that's a bit of a problem. (tmpfiles.d nicely solves this problem).

[navi-desu]

we could have something like "user:group perms /dir", and feed that to checkpath

also i would argue that dumb_runtime_dir not creating it's toplevel dir is a bug in their code

[stacyharper]

also i would argue that dumb_runtime_dir not creating it's toplevel dir is a bug in their code

I don't think they would change their mind: ifreund/dumb_runtime_dir#5 (comment)

[N-R-K]

Unless there are programs that hardcode /run/user/$UID (I wouldn't be surprised), then you don't need to create it there anyways. It's the entire reason why the path is supposed to be set in an env var (XDG_RUNTIME_DIR) so that it can be wherever.

It's perfectly acceptable to just do it as /run/$UID or /run/user.$UID or even put it somewhere in your $HOME optionally mounting it as a tmpfs (e.g in your /etc/fstab) so that cleanup auto occurs at shutdown.

[stacyharper]

To be noted, dumb_runtime_dir has been patched in Alpine to use /run/user- as prefix, instead of /run/user/.

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/81609