[LUG] /var/run file permissions

[Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've upgraded from Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1 and some of the services that start at 
boot time have gone badly wrong.

e.g. Webmin runs OK, but fails to create a webmin.pid file in /var/run so 
linuxconf keeps saying it isn't running and trying to start it. (And of 
course fails.)

More importantly, named can't create a file in /var/run either, but that 
stops named from running at ALL so the rest of the network cannot connect to 
the internet.

I have to chmod 777 /var/run and start named manually. 

Then when I run linuxconf etc later, it changes /var/run back to 755!

All other tasks are running OK and writing files to /var/run OK, so what's 
wrong with the config of S55named@ and S90webmin@ ? I can see no difference 
in the file permissions of the linked files in init.d

Where do I start looking for the problems?

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