On Mon, October 9, 2017 3:31 pm, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 08:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> Am 09.10.2017 um 17:54 schrieb Jonathan Billings: >> > I think that the important learning points today are: >> > >> > 1.) CentOS7 (and any other distro that uses systemd) will have /run as >> > a tmpfs filesystem, and /var/run points to /run on CentOS7, so even if >> > you think this disagrees with the FHS, that's the way it is for >> > CentOS. >> >> And fun fact: not only RHEL 7 and thus CentOS 7 does so, but too Debian >> 9 >> and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (I have no newer test install of that distro). >> >> And frankly speaking, I don't see any indication that this violates with >> the >> FHS and that /var/run must persist reboots. >> > Just the opposite, the FHS condones the CentOS arrangement. > > Under /var/run it says: > > "In general, the requirements for /run shall also apply to /var/run. > It is valid to implement /var/run as a symlink to /run." Indeed, there are many UNIX ties Linux had that were severed by hard work of developing systemd and friends. I guess we just have to live with that (sigh). Valeri > > jl > -- > Jon H. LaBadie jon at jgcomp.com > 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) > Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++