FreeBSD Port: net/mosquitto pidfile or pid_file

[Dan Langille]

Joe,

I updated my mosquitto a few days ago and today it was restarted, but won't start.  I think it's related to the update.

Mar 14 01:47:40 supernews pkg[40249]: mosquitto upgraded: 1.6.7_1 -> 2.0.8

The rc.d sript for net/mosquitto greps for pidfile.

re: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/net/mosquitto/files/mosquitto.in?revision=481153&view=markup#l30

The documentation refers to pid_file, not pidfile.

re: http://mosquitto.org/man/mosquitto-conf-5.html

I think the rc.d script needs an update.  I'd help with a patch, but I can't get a working solution.

$ grep pid /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mosquitto 
pidfile=$(grep pid_file ${mosquitto_config} | awk '{print($2)}')
echo "pidfile = '$pidfile'"
  rm -f $pidfile

$ sudo service mosquitto start
pidfile = '/var/run/mosquitto.pid'
Starting mosquitto.

$ ps auwwx | grep mos
dan        20215   0.0  0.0  11404   2260  1  S+   20:12       0:00.00 grep mos
$ 



$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/mosquitto -c /usr/local/etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf -v
1616184446: Error: Unable to write pid file.

$ ls -ld /var/run
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel  1024 Mar 19 20:12 /var/run

$ ls -l /var/run/mosquitto.pid
ls: /var/run/mosquitto.pid: No such file or directory

— 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/