CentOS - Oct 2017 - how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

On Wednesday 04 October 2017 09:42:13 Anand Buddhdev
wrote:
> There's no need to do that (and it's also messy). Instead, if a
package
> needs a directory to exist in /var/run, then create your own config for
> systemd-tmpfiles, and drop it into /etc/systemd/tmpfiles.d. Work with
> CentOS 7, instead of fighting with it.
>
> Anand
I saw reference to system-tmpfs in Paul's post so I had a quick look. YUM 
doesn't seem to know about it, but I'm sure Google will help.

On Wednesday 04 October 2017 09:53:59 Gary Stainburn
wrote:
> I saw reference to system-tmpfs in Paul's post so I had a quick look.
YUM
> doesn't seem to know about it, but I'm sure Google will help.
Sorry, meant systemd-tmpfiles

On 04/10/2017 10:58, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 October 2017 09:53:59 Gary Stainburn wrote:
>> I saw reference to system-tmpfs in Paul's post so I had a quick
look. YUM
>> doesn't seem to know about it, but I'm sure Google will help.
> 
> Sorry, meant systemd-tmpfiles
On a CentOS 7 system, do:

man systemd-tmpfiles
man tmpfiles.d

Those 2 manpages together explain everything you need to know about
creating temporary files and directories in /run at boot time. If you
search google, you'll probably end up at online versions of those same
man pages.

Regards,
Anand