CentOS - Aug 2015 - /run and /var/run as tmpfs - how many RPM's broken?

This is pretty much a retorical question, although I would like to know the 
extent of the problem and how quickly it's gonna be sorted.

My problem has already been described in a previous post, i.e. clamd fails 
after a reboot.

The cause apparently is that /run and therefore /var/run has at some point 
been moved onto tmpfs which means that it doesn't survive a reboot.

The effect of this is that any folders (such as /var/run/clamd.* that gets 
created when RPMs are installed don't survive, and the first time the server
is rebooted things get broken.

Googling the problem has shown at least a couple of other packages now 
experiencing the same problem. including from memory pcp and MongoDB.

(BTW, I'm still receiving emails from that too good to be true young lady)

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On 26/08/15 10:28, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> This is pretty much a retorical question, although I would like to
> know the extent of the problem and how quickly it's gonna be
> sorted.
> 
> My problem has already been described in a previous post, i.e.
> clamd fails after a reboot.
> 
> The cause apparently is that /run and therefore /var/run has at
> some point been moved onto tmpfs which means that it doesn't
> survive a reboot.
> 
> The effect of this is that any folders (such as /var/run/clamd.*
> that gets created when RPMs are installed don't survive, and the
> first time the server is rebooted things get broken.
> 
> Googling the problem has shown at least a couple of other packages
> now experiencing the same problem. including from memory pcp and
> MongoDB.
> 
> (BTW, I'm still receiving emails from that too good to be true
> young lady)
Solution for packages not ready for el7 is to use tmpfiles.d :
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d.html

For the other issue (spam), as said in a previous email it's not
coming through the centos mail server[s] but an abuse report has be
sent to the cloud provider hosting the VMs used to send those spam
messages directly to the list users.

Cheers,

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Fabian Arrotin
The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org
gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab
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