Am 01.10.2017 um 17:21 schrieb hw: > 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. See https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/09/20/managing-temporary-files-with-systemd-tmpfiles-on-rhel7/ how to manage tmpfiles. Curious, how did you install MariaDB that you have such a problem? The package shipping with CentOS does not create such issue. Alexander