Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> writes: > 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. Thanks, I´ll look into that. I wouldn´t consider a directory like /var/run/mariadb in any way as only temporary --- and wouldn´t consider directories that are required for the system to work as temporary, either. > Curious, how did you install MariaDB that you have such a problem? The > package shipping with CentOS does not create such issue. I´m using the packages from mariadb.org. The old version that comes in Centos isn´t recommended, and I need features only the newer versions provide. Lighttpd is from epel, and it has basically the same issue. -- "Didn't work" is an error.