Re: [DNG] Mosquitto cannot be started, because no /var/mosquitto directory (Devuan stable)

2021-12-15 Thread Steffen Dettmer via Dng
Hi, Thank you so much for your exhaustive answer! The links helped me to solve my next issue as well, that's great! I thought Debian would focus on systemd, I better have looked for myself first. In case someone else faces a similar issue and reads this, I like to add a detail. The patch

Re: [DNG] Mosquitto cannot be started, because no /var/mosquitto directory (Devuan stable)

2021-12-13 Thread Ludovic Bellière via Dng
Hello Steffen, The systemd service file does create the necessary directories (see: https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/blob/master/service/systemd/mosquitto.service.simple). /run/mosquitto not being created is most likely an issue with debian itself. Creating the folder from the init file, as

[DNG] Mosquitto cannot be started, because no /var/mosquitto directory (Devuan stable)

2021-12-13 Thread Steffen Dettmer via Dng
Hi, mosquitto does not start, because there is no /var/mosquitto directory for its PID file. Actually it cannot even be installed, because dpkg script already wants it. Also creating directory does not solve the problem, because /run is tmpfs, so manually created directory won't be there on next