Ubuntu
sysvinit package

  1. Bug #30637
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 30637

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Michael Bienia (geser) wrote :

I did the same (changing the mode to 1777).

I checked the permissions of /var/lock on a Debian system (I had no other Ubuntu system to check) and there the permissions are 1777.
According to the changelog the permissions were changed for Ubuntu because of security concerns.