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creating /var/run
I havn't installed solaris 10 (nor any solaris in a long time). I noticed that during the install the file system layout allowed me to create a swap partition, but there wern't enough partitions to create a /var/run (I am mirroring the disk config of another system). Is /var/run created manually (I didn't set up the other system)?

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I read in another post that it is a memory based file system that is created at boot and not something that I have to create. Any further explanations are helpful.

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No need of manual creation, here's why :
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/var/run contains system information data describing the system since it was booted. Files under this directory must be cleared (removed or truncated as appropriate) at the beginning of the boot process. Programs may have a subdirectory of /var/run; this is encouraged for programs that use more than one run-time file.
/var/run should be unwritable for unprivileged users (root or users running daemons); it is a major security problem if any user can write in this directory. Process identifier (PID) files, which were originally placed in /etc, must be placed in /var/run. The naming convention for PID files is <program-name>.pid. For example, the crond PID file is named /var/run/crond.pid.
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