Bug 403921 – www-servers/nginx-1.0.10 init script should create "/var/tmp/nginx/client"

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Vladimir Berezhnoy 2012-02-15 16:33:14 UTC]

s ~ # /etc/init.d/nginx start
 * Checking nginx' configuration ...
nginx: [emerg] mkdir() "/var/tmp/nginx/client" failed (2: No such file or directory)
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: [emerg] mkdir() "/var/tmp/nginx/client" failed (2: No such file or directory)
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
 * failed, please correct errors above                                                                                                                                                            [ !! ]
 * ERROR: nginx failed to start

[Comment 1 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2012-02-23 09:49:32 UTC]

the ebuild creates these directories and you should not remove them

[Comment 2 Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) 2012-02-23 12:42:35 UTC]

wrong, you can't relay on directories being persistent in /var/tmp
The directory must be created in the init.d-script only.

[Comment 3 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2012-02-23 12:54:28 UTC]

according to FHS:

The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that require temporary files or directories that are preserved between system reboots.

[Comment 4 Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) 2012-02-24 06:38:18 UTC]

true, but again from LHS:

"Files and directories located in /var/tmp must not be deleted when the system is booted. Although data stored in /var/tmp is typically deleted in a site-specific manner, it is recommended that deletions occur at a less frequent interval than /tmp"

thus it can still be the case that files are cleaned up and we should therefore check again in the init.d-script (nginx should do it, but yeah)

[Comment 5 Vladimir Berezhnoy 2012-02-24 15:03:03 UTC]

I just want to note that other init scripts do some pre-start checks and perform modifications to /etc and /var. For example /etc/init.d/sshd checks for keys in /etc and generates them if they are not present, it also checks for /var/empty and creates if neccessary. 
On the other hand there are much more of this and apparently I should just stop wiping /var/tmp as I'm used to or configure nginx to use /var/spool instead

$ equery f nginx
/var/tmp
/var/tmp/nginx
/var/tmp/nginx/client
/var/tmp/nginx/client/.keep_www-servers_nginx-0
/var/tmp/nginx/fastcgi
/var/tmp/nginx/fastcgi/.keep_www-servers_nginx-0
/var/tmp/nginx/proxy
/var/tmp/nginx/proxy/.keep_www-servers_nginx-0
/var/tmp/nginx/scgi
/var/tmp/nginx/scgi/.keep_www-servers_nginx-0
/var/tmp/nginx/uwsgi
/var/tmp/nginx/uwsgi/.keep_www-servers_nginx-0

[Comment 6 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2012-07-18 18:59:32 UTC]

i've added the necessary mkdirs to the init script now