Gary Stainburn <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tuesday 03 October 2017 18:24:01 Mark Haney wrote:
>> What issue? That the PID is dropped on reboot? What else are you
>> putting in there? I'm beginning to question whether you know what
>> you're doing or not. Lighttpd doesn't store any persistent info in
>> /var/run/ because, like everything else, /var/run isn't for persistent
>> data.
>
> Mark, Many Non-Centos originated packages create directories in /var/run as
> part of the install, and expect them to still exist after a reboot.
I would also expect that.
> They then fail when starting the service because they're trying to create a
> PID / Lock file in a directory that no longer exists. This problem has been
> around ever since /var/run was moved to tmpfs.
A ramdisk? That´s an incredibly stupid idea. Ramdisks should not be
used by default.
Is there a way to change that?
> Unfortunately, sometimes we have to use packages other than the official
> Centos ones, usually as in this case because we need newer versions.
>
> There is a solution that saves /var/run to disk at shutdown and restores it at
> bootup but I can't remember what it is.
That doesn´t protect you in case of a power failure and may increase
shutdown durations to a point where the amount of time it takes to
shutdown isn´t fully covered by the UPS.
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