Lighttpd socket Arch Linux /var/run tmpfs tmpfiles.d

On Arch Linux, and probably many other distros /run is a new tmpfs, and /var/run symlinks to it. With Lighttpd you might have a fastcgi socket defined something like "/var/run/lighttpd/sockets/mywebsite.sock". This won't work anymore as after each reboot /var/run is an empty directory and lighttpd won't start, /var/log/lighttpd/error.log will tell you:

2012-03-16 09:21:34: (log.c.166) server started 
2012-03-16 09:21:34: (mod_fastcgi.c.977) bind failed for: unix:/var/run/lighttpd/sockets/mywebsite.sock-0 No such file or directory 
2012-03-16 09:21:34: (mod_fastcgi.c.1397) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed. 
2012-03-16 09:21:34: (server.c.945) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.

That's where this new tool tmpfiles.d comes in. It creates files and directories as described in the configs, and gets invoked on boot. Like so: