wpa_supplicant && and no ctrl_interface for wpa_cli

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 18 July 2007 04:12:55 pm Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 08:10:39PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > and all is fine with WEP and WPA-PSK in the different Wifi locations
> > which I have configured in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf; but the configured
> > UNIX domain socket files for communication in
> > 
> > ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> > 
> > will only be created if I start wpa_supplicant later manually again;
> > I have checked the boot messages, but wpa_supplicant is started after
> > local file systems are mounted and no errors are there;
> 
> This is due to /etc/rc.d/cleanvar purging the /var/run/wpa_supplicant
> directory after /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant is started.
> 
> Here is a crude patch which makes cleanvar skip the wpa_supplicant
> dir. I am not sure what the best solution is...
> 
> 
> --- etc/rc.d/cleanvar.orig	2007-07-18 22:06:41.000000000 +0200
> +++ etc/rc.d/cleanvar	2007-07-18 22:08:02.000000000 +0200
> @@ -28,19 +28,26 @@ purgedir()
>  		for dir
>  		do
>  		(
> -			cd "$dir" && for file in .* *
> -			do
> -				# Skip over logging sockets
> -				[ -S "$file" -a "$file" = "log" ] && continue
> -				[ -S "$file" -a "$file" = "logpriv" ] && continue
> -				[ ."$file" = .. -o ."$file" = ... ] && continue
> -				if [ -d "$file" -a ! -L "$file" ]
> -				then
> -					purgedir "$file"
> -				else
> -					rm -f -- "$file"
> -				fi
> -			done
> +			case "$dir" in
> +			wpa_supplicant)
> +				# Skip
> +				;;
> +			*)
> +				cd "$dir" && for file in .* *
> +				do
> +					# Skip over logging sockets
> +					[ -S "$file" -a "$file" = "log" ] && continue
> +					[ -S "$file" -a "$file" = "logpriv" ] && continue
> +					[ ."$file" = .. -o ."$file" = ... ] && continue
> +					if [ -d "$file" -a ! -L "$file" ]
> +					then
> +						purgedir "$file"
> +					else
> +						rm -f -- "$file"
> +					fi
> +				done
> +				;;
> +			esac
>  		)
>  		done
>  	fi

Are you sure?  In my output of rcorder, cleanvar gets run before netif (which 
is what kicks off wpa_supplicant).  Also, when I looked, other files 
under /var/run that should have been toasted if cleanvar was running after 
netif were still present.

-- 
John Baldwin