Comment 11 for bug 1761997

Hi,

Brian Murray wrote:
> Ah I think it (the tmpfile isn't created) because /usr/bin/screen is
> 2755 in Ubuntu 16.04 but 755 in Ubuntu 18.04. Here's the change between
> the two releases.

Ah! That's due to switching to use libutempter. We're getting quite
close to the issue.

I though wonder how to fix that for Bionic in the best way. Maybe
adding something like this to screen.preinst (not postinst):

perms="`stat -c%a /usr/bin/screen`"
override=/etc/tmpfiles.d/screen-cleanup.conf
if [ $perms -eq 2755 ]; then
    chmod 0777 /var/run/screen
[ -f $override ] || echo 'd /var/run/screen 0777 root utmp' > $override

I assume that this is nothing which would make sense to add to future
releases of Debian's screen package, or does it?

  Regards, Axel
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