Comment 5 for bug 159768

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Michele Angrisano (darksun88-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Another change.
The package has need of merge.
I've sent an e-mail to maintainer of package and he says:

DS ha scritto:
> > 2007/11/22, Michele Angrisano <email address hidden>:
> >
>> >> I'm Michele Angrisano and I'm working on Polipo package.
>> >> I'm working on this bug [1] where there is an Ubuntu's change relative
>> >> to /var/run/polipo.
>> >>
>> >> Please, can you consider the hypothesis of include /var/run/polipo in
>> >> /etc/init.d?
>> >>
>> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/polipo/+bug/159768
> >
> > Hi Michele!
> >
> > I suppose that creating the /var/run/polipo/ must be from
> > polipo-control script, not from init.d, because user can disable this
> > one and he can start polipo-control manual.
> >
> > Another solution can be in moving polipo.pid to the /var/run/.
> >
> > And also I can't understand reason why Tom (the previous maintainer)
> > had set 750 permission on the /var/run/polipo/ directory - there is
> > nothing private, only pid file.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >

For definition, they have to be create from root and the user hasn't to
do all with privileges of root.
The directory would have to be included in an any directory to be
executed from root.

Anyhow, I'll proceed with the merge.

Thanks.