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:
$ cat /etc/tmpfiles.d/lighttpd.conf
d /run/lighttpd/sockets 0700 http http
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