Re: [Sks-devel] debian sks start from init file fails

[Teun Nijssen]

on 2009-03-13 18:09 Andy Ruddock wrote the following:
> Phil Pennock wrote:
>> On 2009-03-13 at 08:44 +0100, Gab wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> If i start sks with the usual debian way /etc/init.d/sks start or
>>> restart sksdb e sksrecon don't start living this error message:
>>>
>>>> address@hidden:~# /etc/init.d/sks start
>>>> Starting sks daemons: sksdb.. sksrecon.. done.
>>> Apparently go smooth but there's no server listening.
>>> If i restart it it says:
>>>
>>>> address@hidden:~# /etc/init.d/sks restart
>>>> Stopping sks daemons: sksrecon..start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 
>>>> 16818: No such process
>>>>  sksdb..start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 16815: No such process
>>>>  done.
>>>> Starting sks daemons: sksdb.. sksrecon.. done.
>>> If i launch sksdb& abd sksrecon& singulary all goes well:
>>>
>>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:11370           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN 
>>>>      0          134370      16673/sks       
>>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:11371           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN 
>>>>      0          134346      16671/sks
>>> I have executed one by one all commands inside sks_build.sh separately
>>> and all went well , i have never seen this behaviur .
>> Well, what about the logs, what do they say?
> 
>> And what user owns all the files and which user is sks running as when
>> started by the init.d script?
> 
>> Eg, if Debian is doing something like creating a Debian-sks user, then
>> you'll need to make sure that most of the sks directory area is
>> read-writeable by that user -- typically by making it owned by that
>> user.
> 
> If the Debian install is anything like the Ubuntu one, then the pid
> files are stored in /var/run/sks/sksdb.pid & /var/run/sks/sksrecon.pid.
> The problem is that /var/run is mounted as a temporary filesystem and
> the sks sub-directory doesn't exist.
> You'll need to create the /var/run/sks directory, and set its owner to
> debian-sks before starting the daemons.
> 
> I documented it here :
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/az9w2h

I agree. I use the following lines, which look way more fun than yours :)

mkdir -p `dirname "$SKSDBPID"`
chown debian-sks:debian-sks `dirname "$SKSDBPID"`

Christoph, can you commit this for a new .deb package?

cheers,

teun



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