On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 04:55:31PM +0100, Dieter Roels wrote: > Jurij, > > You are right, /var is writeable when the daemon is started from udev. > But i have no idea why... As far as I know, I'm running a standard > debian testing (except kernel). > > The only thing I could think of that's not standard in my install is > that i was running bootlogd. I thought bootlogd was mounting /var early > to be able to write its log in /var/log/, but I turned it off, and it > still mounts /dev/sda1 before udev is starting ipw3945d.
No, I don't think its bootlogd. According to /etc/rcS.d/S02mountkernfs.sh it is possible for /var/run to be mounted on tmpfs (and it would become writeable before the udev is run in that case) by setting RAMRUN=yes in /etc/default/rcS. Can you post the output of 'mount' on your machine? Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]