Day 28 in the #vDM30in30 Image source: https://flic.kr/p/y1DUPj
So previously I blogged about about how to ensure a /var/run directory exists before a systemd service starts, using the ExecStartPre steps to ensure the directory exists.
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/mkdir /run/jmxtrans/ ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chown -R jmxtrans:jmxtrans /run/jmxtrans/ I took the idea from a blog by Jari Turkia.
However, I made the rookie mistake of not checking the comments to see if things had changed and there was a better way, since the original post was written in 2013.
