[CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

Hi,

how can I prevent files/directories like /var/run/mariadb from being
deleted on reboot?  Lighttpd has the same problem.

This breaks services and makes servers non-restartable by anyone else
but the administrator who needs to re-create the needed files and
directories every time and has to figure out what selinux labels they
need.  This causes unnecessary downtimes.

This is entirely inacceptable.  This totally sucks.


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