config help & pid file not existing issue

[Parke]

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 2:12 AM David Penn <px920906 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On both nodes I installed 1.1pre17 (laptop from aur package, vps using make install), and when I use commands like "tinc stop","tinc dump nodes", it says  "Could not open pid file /usr/local/var/run/tinc.pid: No such file or directory".
> Does this matter? or even the previous problem is somehow due to this?

Does the directory /usr/local/var/run/ exist?

If not, mkdir it.

I seem to remember that, during install, 1.1pre17 does not make all
the directories it needs.

-Parke