On 10/11/2017 12:20 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 09/21/2017 08:14 AM, hw wrote: >> what keeps deleting files and directories under /var/run? Having them >> deleted >> is extremely annoying because after a reboot, things are suddenly >> broken because >> services don´t start. *snip* > > The fact of the matter is that the EL7 behavior is to store /var/run in > a temporary way, and that's not at all likely to be changed in EL7, *snip* When I need daemon (or other not human user) produced data to persist a reboot, I use /srv - I don't know if that is technically correct or not, but it seems highly unlikely /srv would ever be a candidate for wipe on boot. Perhaps the package in question could simply be patched to use /srv ??