From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Could two emtpy xenstored folder in /var/... be created when 1st time xenstord start? Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:34:54 -0500 Message-ID: <430DE51E.3070501@us.ibm.com> References: <16A54BF5D6E14E4D916CE26C9AD3057502480C37@pdsmsx402.ccr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <16A54BF5D6E14E4D916CE26C9AD3057502480C37@pdsmsx402.ccr.corp.intel.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: "You, Yongkang" Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org You, Yongkang wrote: >Hi all, > >I just wondered why two empty xenstored folder /var/lib/xenstored and >/var/run/xenstored be created when source make and copy to >dist/install. > > The pids are stored in /var/run/xenstored and the store data is stored in /var/lib/xenstored. xenstored always has to be running so these directories will be filled with something very soon after install. Unless there's a compelling reason not to do so, I think it's okay to assume the existance of /var/{lib,run}/xenstored and have the install script make it. Regards, Anthony Liguori >How about remove them from source making and create them when 1st >xenstrored start, if not other special files generated in those folder? >So we don't need to add more in /var. > >Any comments? :) > >Thanks, >Yongkang You(Kangkang) > > >_______________________________________________ >Xen-devel mailing list >Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com >http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel > > >