Trying to develop a systemd snort script, running into errors removing/creating pid files

[Tony Robinson <deusexmachina667 () gmail com>]

Hello There,

I'm working on an update for autosnort and I figured it was high past time
for me to stop half-assing boot persistence for Snort via rc.local and make
actual init scripts or similar.

So here I am, trying to make a systemd script. The goals are to bring up
the network interface in promisc mode, start snort, and start barnyard2.
The script does that. Rather well. Probably not the way systemd devs want
one to do it... but we'll cross that bridge later.

My problem comes when I try to kill snort or barnyard2. The kill command
works, but there's errors in the logs:

Oct 23 09:38:10 localhost snort[2502]: Could not remove pid file
/var/run//snort_ens33.pid: Permission denied
Oct 23 09:38:10 localhost snort[2502]: Snort exiting

Barnyard2 doesn't seem to care that it can't remove the pid file and that's
fine, I suppose, because restarting Snort/Barnyard2 seem to work fine:

Oct 23 09:45:38 localhost snort[2912]: Checking PID path...
Oct 23 09:45:38 localhost snort[2912]: PID path stat checked out ok, PID
path set to /var/run/
Oct 23 09:45:38 localhost snort[2912]: Writing PID "2912" to file
"/var/run//snort_ens33.pid"

Oct 23 09:45:43 localhost barnyard2[2915]: PID path stat checked out ok,
PID path set to /var/run/
Oct 23 09:45:43 localhost barnyard2[2915]: Writing PID "2915" to file
"/var/run//barnyard2_ens33.pid"

Here are the options I use to start snort:
snort -D -u snort -g snort -c /opt/snort/etc/snort.conf -i ens33

Here are the options I use to start barnyard2:
barnyard2 -c /opt/snort/etc/barnyard2.conf -d /var/log/snort -f snort.u2 -w
/var/log/snort/barnyard2.waldo -D

I know a lot of stuff changed in centOS 7. I noticed that one of them was
that /var/run is now a symlink to /run. What would cause Snort/BY2 to have
permissions to follow the pid file and write their pids, but then not have
permissions to remove the pid file after execution has stopped?

I've attached the systemd script I wrote as well.

Attachment: snortbarn.service
Description:

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