chmod /var/run safe ?

[Albert Shih]

Hi,

I've some issue to allow some of my user to restart tomcat7.

All tomcat7 file owned by let's say tomcat:tomcat, the user can do a sudo
tomcat.

But he cannot restart tomcat7 because

  /var/run

are owned by root and the right are 755 so tomcat cannot put the
/var/run/tomcat7.pid

Of course I can change the location of this file but for that I need to
patch

  /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat7

and that's mean each time this script are update, I need to refix it.

So is it safe to do

  chmod 1777 /var/run

or they are other solution ?

regards



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