The init script for transmission creates its own runtime directory: if [ ! -d "${rundir}" ]; then mkdir "${rundir}" if [ -n "${runas_user}" ]; then chown -R ${runas_user} "${rundir}" fi fi A single call to "checkpath" from OpenRC (man openrc-run) would be more appropriate here. It's simpler, more portable (being part of OpenRC), and more secure: chown will follow symlinks and hardlinks, but checkpath will not. (I don't see any way to exploit the stanza above, but since checkpath is preferable anyway, the total absence of "chown" from the init script would be reassuring.)
You are looking at an obsolete version of the init script.
(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #1) > an obsolete version Not... alphabetically =) Sorry for the noise.