[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/dnsmasq: cleanup run-time files in init script

Jörg Krause jkrause at posteo.de
Sat Nov 15 13:25:28 UTC 2014


On Fr, 2014-11-14 at 23:47 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 14/11/14 22:30, Jörg Krause wrote:
> > dnsmasq does not clean its run-times its run-time files after stopping with
> > /etc/init.d/S80dnsmasq stop. Do this manually.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jörg Krause <jkrause at posteo.de>
> > ---
> >  package/dnsmasq/S80dnsmasq | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/package/dnsmasq/S80dnsmasq b/package/dnsmasq/S80dnsmasq
> > index 587751e..b29fff4 100755
> > --- a/package/dnsmasq/S80dnsmasq
> > +++ b/package/dnsmasq/S80dnsmasq
> > @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ case "$1" in
> >  		echo -n "Stopping dnsmasq: "
> >  		start-stop-daemon -K -q -x /usr/sbin/dnsmasq
> >  		[ $? = 0 ] && echo "OK" || echo "FAIL"
> > +		# dnsmasq does not clean its run-time files
> > +		rm -f /var/run/dnsmasq.pid
> > +		rm -f /var/run/dnsmasq.leases
> 
>  The leases file is read again by dnsmasq when it starts, so it can give the
> same addresses. So it shouldn't be removed. In fact, in my setup I even put the
> leases file in persistent storage.

For any reason dnsmasq duplicates the leases file. I have a copy
in /var/lib/misc/ and one in /var/run/. Not sure why the latter one
exists.




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