On Tuesday 03 October 2017 18:24:01 Mark Haney wrote: > What issue? That the PID is dropped on reboot? What else are you > putting in there? I'm beginning to question whether you know what > you're doing or not. Lighttpd doesn't store any persistent info in > /var/run/ because, like everything else, /var/run isn't for persistent > data. Mark, Many Non-Centos originated packages create directories in /var/run as part of the install, and expect them to still exist after a reboot. They then fail when starting the service because they're trying to create a PID / Lock file in a directory that no longer exists. This problem has been around ever since /var/run was moved to tmpfs. Unfortunately, sometimes we have to use packages other than the official Centos ones, usually as in this case because we need newer versions. There is a solution that saves /var/run to disk at shutdown and restores it at bootup but I can't remember what it is.