On Dec 13, 2018, at 12:22, Gordan Bobic <gordan@redsleeve.org> wrote:

Great advice indeed. Unfortunately, many packages expect directories in /var/log to exist before they start and will break without them. A long time ago I wrote a service called tmpersist that takes care of that, but ultimately it was just left untriaged on RH bugzilla until it rotted - seems I was the only one around who cared.

IoT (and embedded applications in general) are quite far from the Upstream Provider’s primary envisioned use cases, unfortunately.