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/run (runtime data) - Amazon Linux 2027

/run (runtime data)

System components use the /run directory to store small amounts of runtime data, such as socket files. It is a tmpfs file system, writable only by privileged programs. The legacy /var/run path is a symbolic link to /run.

The /run/log directory can hold logs before they are written to /var/log, or before the /var/log file system is available.

The /run/user/ path contains per-user runtime directories: individual tmpfs file systems that systemd mounts when a user logs in and removes when the user logs out. Reference them through the $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable, as described in the XDG Base Directory Specification on the freedesktop.org website, not by literal path.