On 2019/01/09 21:47, Thomas Huber wrote: > Hi and thanks! > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 18:06, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > > > On 2019-01-08, Bryan Vyhmeister <br...@bsdjournal.net> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 03:27:39PM +0100, Thomas Huber wrote: > > >> just upgrade the Unifi Controller net/unifi/stable (version 5.8.30) from > > >> ports. > > >> The controller service doesn??t start wit rcctl(8) but works fine when > > >> running as root. > > >> My guess is that _unifi is not allowed to start monogd but don??t have a > > >> clue how to fix this... > > >> Does it matter if databases/mongo is install from ports or pkg? > > >> I installed all dependecies manually with pkg_add(1) > > >> > > >> Any idea where to look? > > > > any output from "rcctl -d start unifi"? > > # rcctl -d start unifi > > > doing _rc_parse_conf > doing _rc_quirks > unifi_flags empty, using default >< > doing _rc_parse_conf /var/run/rc.d/unifi > doing _rc_quirks > doing rc_check > unifi > doing rc_start > doing _rc_wait start > doing rc_check > doing rc_check > Alarm clock > doing _rc_write_runfile > (ok) > # > > > > > anything in logs? > > yes, there was... sorry that I didn´t look for that by myself at the first > time. > several files had wrong permissions. I chowned to '_unifi:wheel' and now it > seem to work fine.
I guess the most likely cause of that would be starting it manually (i.e. outside the rcctl/rc.d system) as a different user (probably root). > Also I moved the directories 'data' and 'backup' to /var and linked back just > like the logs > are. > Is this a good or bad idea? You may have to fix some things up after updating in future. With hindsight that may have been a better choice but a bit awkward to change in the port now.
