On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 15:25, Amy Tanner wrote: > Is it normal for files created in /var/run to be deleted upon reboot? > If yes, what is deleting them? > > I'm trying to get cfengine to work with encryption, and according to the > documentation, the key file needs to live in /var/run/cfengine. This > works fine until the box gets rebooted. After a reboot the key file is > no longer there (but the /var/run/cfengine directory is). And I cannot > find a way to specify an alternative location for the cfengine key file. If you can't find another way, I'd suggest making the keyfile in /var/run/cfengine a symlink (possibly to /etc/cfengine/foo) and re-creating it on boot.