/var/run/aide/ missing

The problem is in /etc/cron.daily/aide after line 39
 TMPBASE="/var/run/aide"
add:
       if [ ! -d $TMPBASE ] ; then
               # TMPBASE does not exist, create it
               mkdir $TMPBASE;
       fi

Or patch it with the attached aide.patch

Setting of restrictive file permissions would be also a good thing.

This has been fixed in 0.13.1

Thanks for your report and feel free to submit any new bug.

Hello,

I am running a server on Hardy, with the 0.13.1-8 version of Aide, and I still get this mail.

Storm, this is strange because the directory /var/run/aide is created during install by the postinst script.

Can you check if /var/run/aide/ exists on your system ?

No, I have to create it, and if I reboot my computer, I have to do this again.

Furthemore, sometimes directory is deleted whereas I don't shutdown my computer :s

I may narrow that I have done an update from a Dapper system, with its version of Aide (I don't remember its version number).

Am Do, 17. Juli 2008 23:01:07 schrieb Jean-Baptiste Lallement:
> Storm, this is strange because the directory /var/run/aide is created
> during install by the postinst script.
>
> Can you check if /var/run/aide/ exists on your system ?

I added a test for the /var/run/aide directory to /etc/cron.daily/aide

---8<---
TMPBASE="/var/run/aide"
if [ ! -d $TMPBASE ] ; then
   # TMPBASE does not exist, create it
   mkdir $TMPBASE;
fi
LOCKFILE="$TMPBASE/cron.daily.lock"
---8<---

regards,
thomas

I'm marking it back to confirmed because even if the /var/run/aide directory is created during install, there are cases where it doesn't exist anymore at run time. I haven't found how this could happen but the proposed patch is harmless.

Here is the debdiff to fix this issue.

@Jean-Baptiste: The reason /var/run/aide no longer exists after rebooting is that in 8.04, /var/run is mounted as a tmpfs filesystem and has no backing store on disk. It would be great if we could roll this fix into the SRU update for aide that includes bug 157858 as well.

Thanks!

I briefly reviewed the debdiff and it seems that the script will hit 'cantcreatebase' if the directory does exist. Jean-Baptiste, can you comment/update the patch?

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 05:29:46PM -0000, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
> I briefly reviewed the debdiff and it seems that the script will hit
> 'cantcreatebase' if the directory does exist.

I thought that too, but then both experimentation and the mkdir(1)
manpage showed that mkdir -p won't return an error if the directory
already exists (it will for other problems, such as EPERM).

--
Steve Beattie
<email address hidden>
http://NxNW.org/~steve/

So it does. Thanks Steve.

Good work Jean-Baptiste. I have just now uploaded this to Intrepid. Thanks!

Jean-Baptiste, can you also file a bug with Debian following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream? This will benefit Debian users with a tmpfs /var/run, as well as minimize out delta. Thanks!

I'm sorry not coming back earlier. I've been quite busy. I've reported it there http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501848

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

According to Jamie's comment this is fixed in intrepid. Please reopen if not.

Successfully verified hardy-proposed:

0.13.1-8ubuntu1 in hardy-updates
No /var/run/aide/ is present after package installation and reboot.

0.13.1-8ubuntu3 in hardy-proposed
The /var/run/aide/ directory now exists following installation and the directory is successfully recreated by the cron.daily/aide job.

The fix for this in aide 0.13.1-8ubuntu3 has now been released in hardy-updates; marking as closed as the changelog had a typo for the bugnumber so this bug wasn't automatically closed