On Sep 21, 2017, at 8:14 AM, hw <hw at gc-24.de> wrote: > what keeps deleting files and directories under /var/run? Having them deleted > is extremely annoying because after a reboot, things are suddenly broken because > services don´t start. Assuming that this is a CentOS 7 system, /var/run is just a link to /run, which is a tmpfs filesystem. No files there survive a reboot.m If you need directories to be automatically created, you’ll need to use systemd-tmpfiles. Basically, the packages put files in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/, and you’d add your own in /etc/tmpfiles.d/. For example, fail2ban has: $ cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/fail2ban.conf D /var/run/fail2ban 0755 root root - Read the ‘tmpfiles.d’ man page for more details. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>