Re: grafana rc.d scripts reports process not running

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2023, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> I'm currently trying out grafana, and I noticed one weirdness after
> starting it using the pkgsrc rc.d script.
>
> # /etc/rc.d/grafana status
> grafana is not running.
> # cat /var/run/grafana.pid
> 21719# ps -auxwww | grep 21719
> root     7846  0.0  0.0     12468   2212 pts/4  O+    3:14nachm.    0:00.00 grep 21719
> grafana 21719  0.0  0.1   1681352 157636 pts/4  Sl    3:08nachm.    0:02.15 grafana server -homepath /usr/pkg/share/grafana -config /usr/pkg/etc/grafana.conf -pidfile /var/run/grafana.pid
>
> So grafana saved its PID into /var/run/grafana.pid, which is what's
> configured in the rc.d script as pidfile, but the status command
> thinks it's not running, despite a grafana process with the
> corresponding PID running. (I tried manually adding a newline to the
> pidfile, but that doesn't change the behaviour.)
>
> There is not even an interpreter involved, /usr/pkg/bin/grafana is a
> go binary.
>
> Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be here?
>
> grafana rc.d script attached.

A way to check for a process-name different from the command-name seems
to be documented in /etc/rc.subr. Does this patch work?

```
--- grafana.orig	2023-12-27 08:45:46.000000000 +0000
+++ grafana	2023-12-27 08:47:37.869798624 +0000
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 fi

 name="grafana"
+procname=$name
 rcvar=$name
 grafana_user="grafana"
 grafana_group="grafana"
```

-RVP