[arch-general] systemd permissions on run?

[Leonid Isaev]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 11:23:34AM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general wrote:
> 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.

Do these seem similar?
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6632
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=888976

Cheers,
-- 
Leonid Isaev