Amand
*Thank you for the explanation .*
2017-10-05 7:00 GMT-03:00 Anand Buddhdev <anandb@xxxxxxxx>:
> On 05/10/2017 11:32, hw wrote:
>
> >> That directory isn't temporary. The files almost always are, but not
> >> the directories. As I said, whatever it is you're doing, it's wrong.
> >> I wouldn't continue to keep a setup like that as it's not standard
> >> practice to keep data in /var/run that isn't temporary.
> >
> > Well, what am I supposed to do? The socket (or what it was) needs to be
> > put somewhere, and IIRC, it wasn´t my choice to put it there but is a
> > default. With mariadb, there are some defaults you can´t reasonably
> > change because other software expects files where they usually are. And
> > I don´t want to change that, I just want mariadb and lighttpd and other
> > things to start on reboots rather than being broken because someone
> > decided that files/directories they require are to be deleted on reboots
> > before they can start.
>
> I can't believe people are still asking this question after being given
> appropriate advice. So let me repeat it, and don't ask again unless
> you've read this properly:
>
> 1. /var/run is a symlink to /run, which is a tmpfs mounted in RAM.
>
> 2. At reboot, /run vanishes, and EVERYTHING that was in it, vanishes
> with it.
>
> 3. For this reason, systemd ships with a utility called
> systemd-tmpfiles, which is run early in the boot process, to create any
> appropriate files and directories in /run. Packages that require
> directories to be present in /run (for keeping PID files or sockets),
> should ship with the appropriate tmpfiles.d snippets to have these
> directories created for them on boot.
>
> 4. Finally, if you as a sysadmin are using a package from a repo that
> isn't CentOS or EPEL, and this package is not following the CentOS
> packaging protocol for data in /run, then it is YOUR own responsibility
> to fix the package, or create your own tmpfiles.d snippet to create the
> required directories.
>
> 5. Learn about systemd-tmpfiles by reading the man pages of
> "systemd-tmpfiles" and "tmpfiles.d".
>
> This is as clear as crystal. If, despite this instruction, you cannot,
> or do not want to work with CentOS as it was intended, then stop whining
> about things here.
>
> Regards,
> Anand
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