Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> writes: > On Oct 3, 2017, at 13:12, hw <hw at adminart.net> wrote: >> >> 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. > > If the mariadb.org package thinks /var/run is persistent, then it’s not intended for CentOS7. Or it is intended for Centos and not done how it needs to be because Centos differs from the FHS ... > If the EPEL package did too, then there could be serious problems with > that package. However, I see that it has a > /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/lighttpd.conf, so it is ok. Hm, then how come it´s so troublesome? I have /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/httpd.conf. It seems to have remained because I had httpd (which is apache) installed and then switched to lighttpd and removed httpd. httpd is no longer installed. The only installed package referring to it is apache-commons-logging, and I don´t know why it hasn´t been removed. The contents of /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/httpd.conf indicate that this file is for apache. Why hasn´t this file been removed when httpd was removed? There is no file lighttpd.conf in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d. Does this mean that both packages, httpd and lighttpd, have serious problems because they do not remove and do not install files correctly? -- "Didn't work" is an error.