From 4550a95a2e4b48c3a34c314e5297921082c062d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Lefranc <guillaume@dragonscale.eu>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:53:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Create PID dir on service start

---
 etc/maxscale.service.in | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/etc/maxscale.service.in b/etc/maxscale.service.in
index 1d0597c76..e036ae235 100644
--- a/etc/maxscale.service.in
+++ b/etc/maxscale.service.in
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ After=network.target
 Type=forking
 Restart=on-failure
 PIDFile=@MAXSCALE_VARDIR@/run/maxscale/maxscale.pid
+ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/mkdir @MAXSCALE_VARDIR@/run/maxscale
+ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chown -R maxscale:maxscale @MAXSCALE_VARDIR@/run/maxscale
 ExecStart=@CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@/@MAXSCALE_BINDIR@/maxscale --user=maxscale
 
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