Amand *Thank you for the explanation .* 2017-10-05 7:00 GMT-03:00 Anand Buddhdev <anandb at ripe.net>: > On 05/10/2017 11:32, hw wrote: > > >> That directory isn't temporary. The files almost always are, but not > >> the directories. As I said, whatever it is you're doing, it's wrong. > >> I wouldn't continue to keep a setup like that as it's not standard > >> practice to keep data in /var/run that isn't temporary. > > > > Well, what am I supposed to do? The socket (or what it was) needs to be > > put somewhere, and IIRC, it wasn´t my choice to put it there but is a > > default. With mariadb, there are some defaults you can´t reasonably > > change because other software expects files where they usually are. And > > I don´t want to change that, I just want mariadb and lighttpd and other > > things to start on reboots rather than being broken because someone > > decided that files/directories they require are to be deleted on reboots > > before they can start. > > I can't believe people are still asking this question after being given > appropriate advice. So let me repeat it, and don't ask again unless > you've read this properly: > > 1. /var/run is a symlink to /run, which is a tmpfs mounted in RAM. > > 2. At reboot, /run vanishes, and EVERYTHING that was in it, vanishes > with it. > > 3. For this reason, systemd ships with a utility called > systemd-tmpfiles, which is run early in the boot process, to create any > appropriate files and directories in /run. Packages that require > directories to be present in /run (for keeping PID files or sockets), > should ship with the appropriate tmpfiles.d snippets to have these > directories created for them on boot. > > 4. Finally, if you as a sysadmin are using a package from a repo that > isn't CentOS or EPEL, and this package is not following the CentOS > packaging protocol for data in /run, then it is YOUR own responsibility > to fix the package, or create your own tmpfiles.d snippet to create the > required directories. > > 5. Learn about systemd-tmpfiles by reading the man pages of > "systemd-tmpfiles" and "tmpfiles.d". > > This is as clear as crystal. If, despite this instruction, you cannot, > or do not want to work with CentOS as it was intended, then stop whining > about things here. > > Regards, > Anand > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >