Mounting a webdav directory

[Richard Barry]

ok, the problem is that it wants a subdir called mount.davfs in
the /var/run directory.  This gets created by the installer when I
install the davfs2 package, but when I shutdown (reboot) it disappears.
How is the contents of the /var/run dir managed?  Is it cleared on a
shutdown and regenerated as the applications start up?  I could solve my
problem by running the following as root at startup:

$ mkdir /var/run/mount.davfs
$ chown root.users /var/run/mount.davfs
$ chmod 1744 /var/run/mount.davfs

What would be the best way to do that?  As a script in /etc/rcS.d/
maybe?


On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 14:49 +0200, Richard Barry wrote:
> I can't find anything obvious in /var/run (see below in my original email).
> Any suggestions as to which one of those it might be? Anybody else have any
> experience with davfs2? 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Phillip Susi
> Sent: 15 February 2006 18:11
> To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
> Subject: Re: Mounting a webdav directory
> 
> Look in /var/run for pid files.
> 
> 
> Richard Barry wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm using davfs2 to mount a webdav directory locally.  I get it 
> > working after I install davfs2, but then after I restart I cannot 
> > mount the directory again.  I get the following error message:
> > 
> > /usr/lib/mount.davfs-2.6: Could not open pid-file
> > 
> > I tried looking in the /var/lock and /var/run directories for 
> > something I can delete to make it work again, but I can't find anything
> obvious:
> > 
> > $ls /var/lock
> > evms-engine  lvm
> > 
> > $ ls /var/run
> > acpid.socket  dbus               klogd                samba
> > atd.pid       dhclient.eth0.pid  laptop-mode-enabled  screen
> > crond.pid     gdm.pid            laptop-mode-state    sdp
> > crond.reboot  hal                mdadm.pid            syslogd.pid
> > cups          hplip              network              utmp
> > 
> > Reintalling davfs2 fixes it, but there has to be some way I can get it 
> > to just work.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > PS I'm running Dapper
> > 
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