[arch-general] systemd permissions on run?

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> 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.