Arch Linux

Description:
http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/var.html
/var/run [...] is valid until the system is next booted.
So deleting /var/run/* on every boot or having this as tmpfs (like I do) is okay.

However openntpd fails when /var/run/openntpd is missing with:

fatal: stat: No such file or directory
dispatch_imsg in main: pipe closed
Lost child: child exited
Terminating

This can easily be fixed with testing and creating /var/run/openntpd in /etc/rc.d/openntpd
I will attach a patch.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
openntp 3.9p
* config and/or log files etc.
didn't change the default configuration of openntpd

Steps to reproduce:
(/etc/rc.d/openntpd stop)
rm -r /var/run/openntpd
/etc/rc.d/openntpd start

I want to note, that a manual /usr/sbin/ntpd works, but "/usr/sbin/ntpd -s" not.
See default /etc/config.d/openntdp.