Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

On 01/10/17 16:21, hw wrote:

Hi,

how can I prevent files/directories like /var/run/mariadb from being deleted on reboot? Lighttpd has the same problem.

This breaks services and makes servers non-restartable by anyone else but the administrator who needs to re-create the needed files and directories every time and has to figure out what selinux labels they need. This causes unnecessary downtimes.

This is entirely inacceptable. This totally sucks.

Assuming that your /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/mariadb.conf file contains:

d /var/run/mariadb 0755 mysql mysql -

the /var/run/mariadb should be recreated on every reboot... if it is not, perhaps either the mysql user or group do not exist. Check /etc/passwd and /etc/group.