Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> writes: > On 10/04/2017 04:54 AM, Mark Haney wrote: >> Why is it so hard for people to understand that var/run IS NOT >> PERSISTENT and was never meant to be? Do they not teach basic Unix >> concepts anymore? > > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARRUNRUNTIMEVARIABLEDATA > > While FHS notes that *files* should be cleared during the boot > process, it does not indicate that directories should be, and that is > the source of this problem. That´s a really good point, thank you. > Packages on recent Fedora, RHEL, or CentOS releases should use > tmpfiles.d to define directory structure within /var/run, but that is > a unique and recent development. > > Please chill out. There is no need to berate users, here. -- "Didn't work" is an error.