Reproducible on openSUSE Tumbleweed: sh-5.0$ id uid=472(unbound) gid=472(unbound) groups=472(unbound) sh-5.0$ pwd /var/run/unbound sh-5.0$ ln -s /test/shadow unbound.pid sh-5.0$ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 unbound unbound 12 Jul 2 12:06 unbound.pid -> /test/shadow sh-5.0$ ls -l /test/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 2 12:07 shadow Restart unbound sh-5.0$ ls -l /test/ total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 unbound unbound 5 Jul 2 12:08 shadow