On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Did something change recently w.r.t this? I have smbd, postgresql, and > squid all failing on me with the following error:- > > systemd[1]: smbd.service: Permission denied while opening PID file or > unsafe symlink chain: /var/run/smbd.pid > systemd[1]: postgresql.service: Permission denied while opening PID file > or unsafe symlink chain: /var/lib/postgres/data/postmaster.pid > systemd[1]: squid.service: Permission denied while opening PID file or > unsafe symlink chain: /run/squid.pid > > The bug tracker only turns u #56966 and #56828 which both have to do with > the 'nobody' user. > More curiously, this does NOT happen on another Arch laptop I have (with those same services running). My ls -la results in /run seem to turn up the same thing, nor are there any differences in shadow/gshadow/passwd etc.
