Unable to create directory /var/run/vpnc

[Sandeep]

Each time I reboot, I need to recreate the /var/run/vpnc directory. I am using the GUI based network-manager setup to connect to VPN (which works perfectly). However, I think that the nm-vpnc-service-vpnc-helper is not recreating these directories.

The erstwhile vpnc-script (http://svn.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/vpnc/trunk/vpnc-script.in) had the following lines to take care of this:

# some systems, eg. Darwin & FreeBSD, prune /var/run on boot
if [ ! -d "/var/run/vpnc" ]; then
 mkdir -p /var/run/vpnc
fi

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick

Package: vpnc
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 276
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.5.3r449-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8), libgcrypt11 (>= 1.4.2), libgnutls26 (>= 2.7.14-0)
Recommends: iproute
Suggests: resolvconf
Conffiles:
 /etc/vpnc/example.conf e79bf2129aa0b8f81fcdf9643be0e68c
 /etc/vpnc/vpnc-script 9a27455502a6fd248148469dcfd0bf42
Description: Cisco-compatible VPN client
 vpnc is a VPN client compatible with cisco3000 VPN Concentrator (also
 known as Cisco's EasyVPN equipment). vpnc runs entirely in userspace
 and does not require kernel modules except of the tun driver to
 communicate with the network layer.
 .
 It supports most of the features needed to establish connection to the
 VPN concentrator: MD5 and SHA1 hashes, 3DES and AES ciphers, PFS and
 various IKE DH group settings.
Original-Maintainer: Eric Warmenhoven <email address hidden>

Package: network-manager-vpnc
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 776
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.8.1+git.20100810t170733.9081821-0ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libnm-glib2 (>= 0.8~a~git.20090917t210753.fdb5ef2), libnm-util1 (>= 0.7.1~20090213+gitf142e15), vpnc
Recommends: network-manager-vpnc-gnome | network-manager-vpnc-kde
Conffiles:
 /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-vpnc-service.conf fd1972dab1966261b4cc7aaa274d3e84
 /etc/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-vpnc-service.name da725da28b8e843fa6c32dde7a2b3851
Description: network management framework (VPNC plugin)
 NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at
 all times. It is intended primarily for laptops where it allows easy
 switching betwen local wireless networks, it's also useful on desktops
 with a selection of different interfaces to use. It is not intended for
 usage on servers.
 .
 This package provides a VPN plugin for vpnc, providing easy access Cisco
 Concentrator based VPN's.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Looks as if vpnc-scripts already includes these changes; both in the file /etc/vpnc/vpnc-script included in vpnc and in the similar file shipped by vpnc-scripts... which is recommended by vpnc.

Closing as Invalid -- this was fixed at some point since Maverick, not exactly sure when, but vpnc certainly has been working at least since Precise without the need for such changes.