I use sysvinit (upgraded from wheezy, when it was the default). The init script that `service` calls is "debian/netdata.init" from the source package. Running it directly from init.d has the same effect.
May 3, 2017 6:02 AM, "Lennart Weller" <lenn...@lennartweller.de> wrote: > What init do you use on your system? > The creation of the pid file should have been done by the init. > > May 3, 2017 5:09 AM, "Daniel Ring" <dr...@wolfishly.me> wrote: > >> Package: netdata >> Version: 1.5.0+dfsg-4 >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> The init scripts provided with this package do not seem to work properly. >> I reported this bug upstream at >> https://github.com/firehol/netdata/issues/2135, but the init >> scripts provided with this package have been modified for Debian so I'm not >> sure where the issue >> first arose. >> The directory "/var/run/netdata" is not created by default on my system. >> Creating it and chowning >> to netdata:netdata had no effect. >> >> Running `service netdata restart` results in the following output: >> [ ok ] Stopping the netdata daemon...done (not running - there is no >> /var/run/netdata/netdata.pid). >> [....] Starting the netdata daemon...2017-05-02 19:55:59: netdata: ERROR: >> IPv4 bind() on ip >> '127.0.0.1' port 19999 failed. (errno 98, Address already in use) >> 2017-05-02 19:55:59: netdata: ERROR: Cannot bind to ip '127.0.0.1', port >> 19999 >> 2017-05-02 19:55:59: netdata: FATAL: Cannot listen on any socket. Exiting... >> # : Success >> >> 2017-05-02 19:55:59: netdata: INFO: Saving database... >> 2017-05-02 19:55:59: netdata: INFO: netdata exiting. Bye bye... >> failed. >> >> Running `service netdata stop` results in the following output: >> [ ok ] Stopping the netdata daemon...done (not running - there is no >> /var/run/netdata/netdata.pid). >> >> A netdata instance is running normally in the background in both cases. >> Running `service netdata start` works as expected. >> >> -- System Information: >> Debian Release: 8.7 >> APT prefers stable-updates >> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') >> Architecture: i386 (i686) >> >> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) >> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) >> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) >> >> Versions of packages netdata depends on: >> ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 >> ii init-system-helpers 1.22 >> ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u7 >> ii libcap2-bin 1:2.24-8 >> ii libuuid1 2.25.2-6 >> ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 >> ii netdata-data 1.5.0+dfsg-4 >> ii python 2.7.9-1 >> ii python-yaml 3.11-2 >> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 >> >> Versions of packages netdata recommends: >> pn nodejs <none> >> >> netdata suggests no packages. >> >> -- Configuration Files: >> /etc/netdata/netdata.conf changed [not included] >> >> -- no debconf information
