[owner@bugs.debian.org: Bug#265920 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#265920: kdm 3.3 is deleting /var/run/xdmctl (causes problem under selinux))]

[owner@bugs.debian.org: Bug#265920 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#265920: kdm 3.3 is deleting /var/run/xdmctl (causes problem under selinux))]

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

okay, there's a way to "keep" the directory...


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#265920: kdm 3.3 is deleting /var/run/xdmctl (causes problem under selinux),
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* Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:36:19 +0100]:

> the directory is being deleted and recreated.

> whilst this makes it nice and easy for dealing with sockets in it,
> it makes for an impossible situation for selinux.

> the issue is that kdm will have to be given both unlink and write access
> to /var/run, in order for /var/run/xdmctl to be deleted and recreated.

> neither of these things are desirable.

> this behaviour was not present in kdm 3.2.X.

  you have two options:

    # touch /var/run/xdmctl/.keep

  kdm will refrain from unlinking the directory, then (checked).

  set, in /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc, FifoDir to some directory which you don't
  mind being created and unlinked on each kdm start-stop cycle. e.g.
  FifoDir=/tmp/xdmctl.

  I'm closing this bug, since I can't see why at least one of these
  options won't work for you.

  thanks, and please write back if this doesn't solve your problem,

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