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

> 
> Best practises also involve to generally not delete files unless you can
> be sure that they can be deleted.  That is probably what the FHS
> intended by specifying that files in /var/run must be deleted/truncated
> at boot time, assuming that the programs that created them would do this
> (and then create them anew if needed), which can be assumed to be
> reasonably safe since it implies that unknown files remain.
> 
> For all I know, someones life could depend on a file that was placed
> somewhere mistakenly.
> 
What a strawman.  You mean that person would still be alive
if the file disappeared during boot rather than shutdown?

jl
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