Hello Sven, thanks for your immediate reply! I did not have opportunity to see if it works, but I would be very astonished if it wouldn't! It seems like a perfect fit. Interesting, I did not not about this part of systemd before.
Thanks again and best regards, Manuel Am Sa, 22. Dez 2018, um 16:29, schrieb Sven Joachim: > On 2018-12-22 15:10 +0100, Manuel Wagesreither wrote: > > > 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, > > If you use systemd as init, the directory is created early by > systemd-tmpfiles(8) as part of sysinit.target. > > > and how can I control the owning user and group of this directory? > > Copy /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/lighttpd.tmpfile.conf to /etc/tmpfiles.d and > replace the user and group there. See tmpfiles.d(5). > > Cheers, > Sven >
