Migrating /etc/network/run to a different place =============================================== In the latest ifupdown, the ifupdown state is stored by default in /run/network, and /etc/network/run is set up to be a symlink to that location. That was made because the default location is sometimes read-only, /dev/shm isn't really a right place for it too, and /lib/init/rw is in the process of being deprecated. The migration is done by default.