Hello all,

I'm running an minbase installation of Debian Stretch and have configured 
lighttpd to run as a different, non-www-data user. However, when booting, 
lighttpd does not start successfully, as /run/lighttpd is still owned by 
www-data. Only when I'm chowning it to the different user, lighttpd can be 
started successfully.

The system is booting from a readonly image. /run does exist there, but it not 
populated with a lighttpd directory.
The readonly image gets created using debootstrap. After debootstrapping, a few 
shell scripts run which change lighttpd to run as a different user.

In detail, the shell scripts are
* replacing occurences of www-data by the new username in 
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf and /etc/init.d/lighttpd, and
* chownign the webroot, /var/log/lighttpd, /var/cache/lighttpd/compress, 
/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads

At which point does /run/lighttpd get created, and how can I control the owning 
user and group of this directory?

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Manuel Wagesreither

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