Comment 2 for bug 126894

I agree with you, in that it isn't the correct way to fix this. Since you're editing a file provided for packaging, as opposed to upstream. I also disagree with using `dirname $PIDFILE`, since the directory the pid file is going to be stored in won't change often, if at all. Secondly, don't use . as a separator for chown, use :

mkdir -p /var/run/popfile
chown -R popfile:popfile /var/run/popfile

Add that directly into the init script, and add a changelog entry. Attach a debdiff to the bug, and I'll have a look at it.

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