Maxscale fail to initiate maxscale.service (Missing /var/run/maxscale) directory

Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/maxscale.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/maxscale.service.

[root@repl-maxscale maxscale]# stat /lib/systemd/system/maxscale.service

  File: ‘/lib/systemd/system/maxscale.service’

  Size: 663             Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file

Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 51064361    Links: 1

Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)

Context: unconfined_u:object_r:systemd_unit_file_t:s0

Access: 2024-02-27 03:45:29.030347816 -0500

Modify: 2024-02-27 03:45:28.974347832 -0500

Change: 2024-02-27 03:45:28.974347832 -0500

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[root@repl-maxscale maxscale]# cat /lib/systemd/system/maxscale.service

[Unit]

Description=MariaDB MaxScale Database Proxy

After=network.target

[Service]

Type=forking

Restart=on-abort

# Make sure /var/run/maxscale exists

ExecStartPre=+/usr/bin/install -d /var/run/maxscale -o maxscale -g maxscale

ExecStartPre=+/usr/bin/install -d /var/lib/maxscale -o maxscale -g maxscale

PIDFile=/var/run/maxscale/maxscale.pid

# Use the default user and group

User=maxscale

Group=maxscale

ExecStart=/usr/bin/maxscale

TimeoutStartSec=120

LimitNOFILE=65535

StartLimitBurst=0

WatchdogSec=60s

NotifyAccess=all

# MaxScale should be restarted if it exits with 75 (BSD's EX_TEMPFAIL)

RestartForceExitStatus=75

[root@repl-maxscale maxscale]# stat /var/run/maxscale/maxscale.pid

  File: ‘/var/run/maxscale/maxscale.pid’

  Size: 4               Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file

Device: 14h/20d Inode: 76958       Links: 1

Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  996/maxscale)   Gid: (  994/maxscale)

Context: system_u:object_r:var_run_t:s0

Access: 2024-02-27 03:46:49.912323884 -0500

Modify: 2024-02-27 03:46:40.862326561 -0500

Change: 2024-02-27 03:46:40.862326561 -0500

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[root@repl-maxscale run]# maxscale --version

MaxScale 23.08.4

MariaDB MaxScale  /var/log/maxscale/maxscale.log  Tue Feb 27 03:48:34 2024

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2024-02-27 03:48:34   notice : Module 'galeramon' loaded from '/usr/lib64/maxscale/libgaleramon.so'.

2024-02-27 03:48:34   notice : Module 'readwritesplit' loaded from '/usr/lib64/maxscale/libreadwritesplit.so'.

2024-02-27 03:48:34   notice : The logging of info messages has been enabled.

2024-02-27 03:48:34   notice : Using up to 272.87MiB of memory for query classifier cache

2024-02-27 03:48:34   notice : syslog logging is disabled.

2024-02-27 03:48:34   notice : maxlog logging is enabled.

2024-02-27 03:48:34   alert  : Can't access '/var/run/maxscale'.: No such file or directory

2024-02-27 03:48:34   MariaDB MaxScale is shut down.

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