It seems to be a race between systemd and nginx. As if systemd was expecting the PID file to be populated before nginx had the time to create it.

mkdir /etc/systemd/system/nginx.service.d printf "[Service]\nExecStartPost=/bin/sleep 0.1\n" > /etc/systemd/system/nginx.service.d/override.conf systemctl daemon-reload systemctl restart nginx

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cat /etc/inittab
# inittab is no longer used when using systemd.
#
# ADDING CONFIGURATION HERE WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON YOUR SYSTEM.
#
# Ctrl-Alt-Delete is handled by /usr/lib/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target
#
# systemd uses ‘targets’ instead of runlevels. By default, there are two main targets:
#
# multi-user.target: analogous to runlevel 3
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