Service "systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service" failed at boot and at every start attempt

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The service systemd-tmpfiles-clean is failing.
Sep 21 11:28:50 node1 systemd[1]: Starting Cleanup of Temporary Directories...
Sep 21 11:28:50 node1 systemd-tmpfiles[7615]: [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nrpe.conf:2] Unknown user 'nagios'.
Sep 21 11:28:50 node1 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 21 11:28:50 node1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Cleanup of Temporary Directories.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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