Description of problem:

The ddclient.service is missing and it is not compliant with the new /run and /var/run file structure, hence, there is an error that /var/run/ddclient/ddclient.pid is not accessible....

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Up-to-date Fedora 16 and ddclient-3.8.1-1.

How reproducible:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ddclient start
generates an error message in the /var/log/messages that the /var/run/ddclient/ddclient.pid is not (yet?) accessible. The reason is that the directory /var/run/ddclient is never created.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /etc/rc.d/init.d/ddclient start
2. watch /var/log/messages
3. see systemd and ddclient messages.
  
Actual results:
Ddclient does not start properly; when the problems are fixed by creating /var/run/ddclient, it is again broken after next reboot....

Expected results:

With following file, I fixed it:

# Save this file (as root) as
#   /lib/systemd/system/ddclient.service
#
# and then activate as
#
# (1) create a directory /var/run/ddclient owned by ddclient:
#        mkdir /var/run/ddclient
#        chown ddclient:ddclient /var/run/ddclient
#
# (2) change contents of /etc/sysconfig/ddclient to
#        DDCLIENT_OPTIONS="-file /etc/ddclient.conf"
#
# (3) add a file in /etc/tmpfiles.d/ddclient.conf with
#        # ddclient needs directory in /var/run
#        d /var/run/ddclient 0775 ddclient ddclient
#
# (4) tell the systemd about ddclient
#   systemctl enable ddclient.service
#   systemctl start ddclient.service
#
[Unit]
Description=A Perl Client Used To Update Dynamic DNS
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/run/ddclient/ddclient.pid
User=ddclient
Group=ddclient
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/ddclient
ExecStartPre=/bin/touch /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ddclient $DDCLIENT_OPTIONS

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
################# End of the file ####################



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