On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 11:23:34AM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general wrote: > 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. Do these seem similar? https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6632 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=888976 Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev
