[Bacula-users] bacula 2.2.0 fails to start, pidfile

[Howard Goldstein]

Dan Langille wrote:
> A copy to ports@
> 
> On 16 Aug 2007 at 18:10, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> 
>> [crossposting out of impatience, sorry for that]
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just upgraded our bacula-server from 1.3.8 to version 2.2.0 using
>> portupgrade.
>>
>> Now bacula-dir fails to start:
>> Could not open pid file. /var/run/bacula-dir.9101.pid ERR=Permission
>> denied
>>
>> I assume it tries to start as the "bacula" user, but /var/run is not
>> writable. Common practice seems to be to create a writable
>> subdirectory 
>> instead, as in /var/run/bacula.
>>
>> Anyone has a fix for this? Maybe a configuration directive would do
>> it?
> 
> See http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=923
> 

Could you share the gist of what's at that link (does it have a fix?)
Strangely enough that's a registration site.