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

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Wed, October 4, 2017 9:38 am, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> 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?

Well, Linux is not UNIX. And it never was, we used "UNIX-like" system
term. There were far too many changed in Linux some of us do not like. So,
let's take today's Linux (I almost used the word "modern") for what its
is.

>
> 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.  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.

Thanks, Gordon, for pointing to that!

Valeri

>
> Please chill out.  There is no need to berate users, here.
>
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