"Permission denied while opening PID file or unsafe symlink chain while restarting service in RHEL 7.7
Issue
- "Permission denied while opening PID file or unsafe symlink chain: /var/run/chrony/chronyd.pid" is shown in rhel7.7.
- Permission denied while opening PID file or unsafe symlink chain: /var/opt/rh/rh-nginx116/run/nginx/nginx.pid
- nginx server fails to restart with
systemctl restart rh-nginx116-nginx.service
and the process does not get killed
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7
- systemd.
- chronyd.
- rh-nginx
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