Description of problem:

In fedora devel (just about to become F15alpha) :

# systemctl start bip.service
Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details.
# systemctl status bip.service
bip.service - LSB: bip is an IRC proxy server
	  Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/bip)
	  Active: failed since Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:53:36 +0100; 6s ago
	 Process: 2605 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/bip start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/bip.service

Probably due to

# rpm -V bip
5S.T.....  c /etc/bip.conf
missing     /var/run/bip

# mount |grep run
tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rootcontext=system_u:object_r:var_run_t:s0,seclabel,mode=755)
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

⇒ with systemd /var/run is a tmpfs so packages that need subdirs inside need to be modified to tell systemd to create them

See also
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tmpfiles.d_packaging_draft

How reproducible:
always

Additional info:
systemd-units-17-3.fc15.x86_64
systemd-gtk-17-3.fc15.x86_64
systemd-17-3.fc15.x86_64
bip-0.8.6-1.fc15.x86_64