[Mageia-dev] /run/httpd (maybe others) breaking features

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 24/01/13 00:24 did gyre and gimble:
>> I was looking at perl-Apache2-DebugFilter build failure
>>
>> In the test it starts an apache which fails as it uses
>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/rewritemap.html#prg which
>> uses a mutex stored in /run/httpd/
>>
>> [Wed Jan 23 23:49:55.962405 2013] [core:emerg] [pid 55277]
>> (13)Permission denied: AH00023: Couldn't create the rewrite-map mutex
>> (file /run/httpd/rewrite-map.55277)
>>
>> That directory is now owned by root so it can't be used for anything
>> except creating the httpd.pid
>>
>> $ cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/httpd.conf
>> d /run/httpd   755 root root
>>
>> Fedora uses "d /run/httpd   710 root apache" which doesn't help in
>> this case but fixes other problems
>>
>> In the past (Mageia 1) runtimedir was /var/run directly so it was
>> possible to create mutex files there for any user
>
> Hmm, not sure what you mean here.
>
> [colin at mga2 ~]$ ls -ld /var/run
> drwxr-xr-x 38 root root 4096 Jan 23 04:04 /var/run/
>
> That dir is also owned by root with 755 perm. It shouldn't make any odds
> to permissions.

Hmm you are right, I don't know why it got broken then

It used to use /var/run/ as runtime dir and it succeeded creating the mutex
It now fails to create it in /run/httpd/

I don't have more clues :(

It may be some change in apache but I couldn't find, I'll try to find
out more tomorrow