The new init script packaged unstable smokeping-2.7.1.ebuild incorrectly sets the default "nodaemon" command argument. SmokePing will not generate syslog messages when ran with this flag. This appears to have been done as a workaround ? For without that value passed in the init script smokeping crashes ;/ files/smokeping.init.5: command_args="--nodaemon" I have successfully "sudo su -s /bin/bash smokeping" and ran the command manually. $ perl /usr/bin/smokeping Note: logging to syslog as local1/info. Daemonizing /usr/bin/smokeping ... creating /run/smokeping.pid: Permission denied Confirming syslog events are being generated. (The pid creation issue could be suppressed by pathing it to the smokeping users home dir: /var/lib/smokeping -- would appreciate the insight on how to set that the correct way;) Need to dig deeper into the init script logic for it's not clear to me yet what exit condition the nodaemon flag is masking.
The init script crash is related to the pid error smokeping throws; permission denied for that file is created with root:root ownership by start-stop-daemon. I was able to get this working by removing these lines: command_args="--nodaemon" command_background="true" Update the pid paths as /run/smokeping /etc/init.d/someping pidfile="/run/smokeping/${RC_SVCNAME}.pid" /etc/smokeping/config piddir = /run/smokeping Borrowing logic from the previous init script to create the run pid dir, add this to start_pre() if [ ! -d /run/smokeping/ ]; then mkdir /run/smokeping/ fi chown $command_user /run/smokeping/ That enabled smokeping to properly run in it's own daemon mode with syslog functionally, and suppress the errors generated by allowing it to create the pid file with smokeping:smokeping ownership. Thanks ;)
