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Date:      Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:10:32 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 198895] net-mgmt/smokeping: hardcoded pidfile
Message-ID:  <bug-198895-13@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198895

            Bug ID: 198895
           Summary: net-mgmt/smokeping: hardcoded pidfile
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: rodrigo@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: buchtajz@borsice.net
          Assignee: rodrigo@FreeBSD.org
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(rodrigo@FreeBSD.org)

The comment in startup script is not completely true.
Smokeping pidfile is configurable via piddir variable in smokeping config.
So, when someone change this, the script will not work.

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/smokeping :
# pidfile is hardcoded in Smokeping.pm, not configurable
smokeping_pidfile="/storage/smokeping/pid"

/usr/local/etc/smokeping/config :
piddir = /any/dir/for/pidfile


Instead hardcoded smokeping_pidfile variable, maybe better using
: ${smokeping_pidfile="%%PREFIX%%/var/smokeping/pid"}

or using "smokeping variable"
: ${smokeping_piddir="%%PREFIX%%/var/smokeping"}
smokeping_pidfile="${smokeping_piddir}/pid"


Regards
buchtajz

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