Service doesn't come back after reboot because the default service directory is missing

[Fitzsimmons]

The default service directory is /var/run/vault, which is created by the cookbook - but on many systems, /var/run is mounted as tmpfs. This means that /var/run/vault is not present if the server reboots. The creation of /var/run/vault should be the responsibility of the init script, so that we don't run into this problem.

[johnbellone]

What platform/version are you running?

[Fitzsimmons]

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. The issue is worse when using sysv, because it has nowhere to put the pidfile. When using upstart, a pidfile is not needed, but it will still attempt to chdir to /var/run/vault and crash when that directory doesn't exist; in this case, node['hashicorp-vault']['service']['directory'] can be overridden to anything persistent, like /etc/vault.

[legal90]

For sysvinit it was fixed by #51

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