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

[Mark Haney]

It's quite obvious you aren't using Centos packages.  If you refuse to do
as best practices insist (and have for nearly HALF A CENTURY) then no one
here can help you.  It seems to me that 1) you'd be better off compiling
from source for your environment, or 2) that you need to follow practices
established (probably) before you were born or 3) that you stop asking the
list for thing no one in their right mind would do.

How hard is that math?

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 5:32 AM, hw <hw at adminart.net> wrote:

> Mark Haney <mark.haney at neonova.net> writes:
>
> > On 10/03/2017 01:12 PM, hw wrote:
> >>
> >>> See
> >>>
> >>> https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/09/20/managing-
> temporary-files-with-systemd-tmpfiles-on-rhel7/
> >>>
> >>> how to manage tmpfiles.
> >> Thanks, I´ll look into that.  I wouldn´t consider a directory like
> >> /var/run/mariadb in any way as only temporary --- and wouldn´t consider
> >> directories that are required for the system to work as temporary,
> >> either.
> > That directory isn't temporary.  The files almost always are, but not
> > the directories.  As I said, whatever it is you're doing, it's wrong.
> > I wouldn't continue to keep a setup like that as it's not standard
> > practice to keep data in /var/run that isn't temporary.
>
> Well, what am I supposed to do?  The socket (or what it was) needs to be
> put somewhere, and IIRC, it wasn´t my choice to put it there but is a
> default.  With mariadb, there are some defaults you can´t reasonably
> change because other software expects files where they usually are.  And
> I don´t want to change that, I just want mariadb and lighttpd and other
> things to start on reboots rather than being broken because someone
> decided that files/directories they require are to be deleted on reboots
> before they can start.
>
> > However, you seem to be insistent on doing things contrary to best
> > practices so.....
> >>> Curious, how did you install MariaDB that you have such a problem? The
> >>> package shipping with CentOS does not create such issue.
> >> I´m using the packages from mariadb.org.  The old version that comes in
> >> Centos isn´t recommended, and I need features only the newer versions
> >> provide.
> >>
> >>
> >> Lighttpd is from epel, and it has basically the same issue.
> >>
> >>
> > What issue? That the PID is dropped on reboot?  What else are you
> > putting in there?  I'm beginning to question whether you know what
> > you're doing or not.  Lighttpd doesn't store any persistent info in
> > /var/run/ because, like everything else, /var/run isn't for persistent
> > data.
>
> IIRC, lighttpd won´t start unless you mess with where it puts its pid
> file.  I think I had to resort to put it into /tmp or something like
> that because the place where it´s supposed to put it gets deleted on
> reboots.
>
> I´ve never before had issues like this.
>
>
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