[WBEL-users] OT: Fwd: Re: Booting linux host, getting error message (SOLVED)
James Knowles
jamesk@ifm-services.com
Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:19:44 -0600
OK... I'm easily impressed. But I thought this was a cool trick that I'd
share. I didn't know about tmpfs. I always wondered what that /dev/shm
was on my WBEL boxen, but never bothered to ask.
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> When I boot my Linux host (WBEL 3, a RHEL 3 clone), I get a slew of
> messages of the form:
>
> run: cannot remove /var/run/vmware/<username>/<integer>: Is a directory
I came up with a solution. I'm mounting /var/run as tmpfs, so it's
automatically cleared upon shutdown (including reboot).
I added the following to /etc/fstab:
none /var/run tmpfs defaults 1 2
There's an article on this nifty trick:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs3.html