‘benefits’ then (to me anyway) you’re lazy and dangerous with critical data. If you think using non-standard packages that put /persistent/ items in non-persistent locations like /var/run in production environments is far more acceptable than compiling from source because of package management Call it a flame if you want, truth hurts and ignoring basic rules is a good way to hurt yourself or other people.

Honestly, I feel bad for your employer if you think this is an acceptable way to get a system working. It’s been that way at least since I was in HS and college in the 80s and very very likely since the early Unix days. You don’t do surgery with dirty scalpels, you don’t drive without brakes, these are axiomatic just like /var/run isn’t persistent. If you can’t build from source to keep from using non-standard packages, then you really shouldn’t be doing whatever it is you were hired to do. And believe me, word gets around quickly in IT circles. Banging a square peg into a round hole, even in a test environment is a good way to get fired and become unemployable. PERSISTENT and was never meant to be? Do they not teach basic Unix concepts anymore? If you think that setup is acceptable, I wouldn’t hire you to water my lawn as you’d likely water the electrical box along with said lawn. Why is it so hard for people to understand that var/run IS NOT I’d compile from source before I used something configured that way.

Sorry, but if you have to use packages that don’t originate from CentOSĪnd they do that, then I wouldn’t use them.

Centos 6 read hfs file system