# Mongrel\_cluster 1.0.1.1 does not create /var/run/mongrel\_clu

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-cluster-1-0-1-1-does-not-create-var-run-mongrel-clu/103655>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [May 8, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-cluster-1-0-1-1-does-not-create-var-run-mongrel-clu/103655 "2007-05-08T23:07:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![ehud](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@ehud](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ehud)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-cluster-1-0-1-1-does-not-create-var-run-mongrel-clu/103655/1 "2007-05-08T23:07:03Z")

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## Hi everyone, I am going crazy over here! 🙂 I just want to be able to use --clean with my mongrel\_rails cluster::start command. I’ve upgraded to mongrel\_cluster 1.0.1.1 and mongrel\_rails 1.0.1. my config file is in /etc/mongrel\_rails/config.yml and contains:

log\_file: log/mongrel.log  
port: 8000  
pid\_file: /var/run/mongrel\_cluster/mongrel.pid  
servers: 2  
address: 127.0.0.1  
environment: production

in the following post it says the init.rb script from mongrel\_cluster  
should create the var/run directory itself, but it does not seem to do  
so ( I get the message:  
!!! Path to log file not valid: log/mongrel.8001.log  
mongrel::start reported an error. Use mongrel\_rails mongrel::start -h  
to get help)

Also, when I manually set the pid file dir to what it used to be (the  
log dir of my app)  
it does not clean it up and still give the old message that a PID  
already exists - i’m not sure if that’s because it’s not in /var/run  
as I have seen different comments on this.

Any help would be appreciated…

Thanks!  
Ehud.

PS - I have also tried running mongrel\_rails cluster::configure -C /  
etc/mongrel\_rails/config.yml again but all it did was overwrite my  
file…