Devuan bug report logs - #499
Smokeping service unable to stop/restart

Package: smokeping; Maintainer for smokeping is (unknown); Source for smokeping is src:smokeping.

Reported by: ShadowM00n <shadowm00n@airmail.cc>

Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 18:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: debian

Merged with 699

Found in versions 2.7.3-3, 2.7.3-2

Fixed in version 2.7.3-4

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

Forwarded to https://bugs.debian.org/989354

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Package: smokeping
Version: 2.7.3-2

First-time submitter, so please excuse and correct me on any procedural 
errors on my part.

Basically, the current version of smokeping's init service quietly fails 
to stop smokeping, and then subsequently fails to restart it because the 
process is still running.

My understanding is that between ASCII and Beowulf the service was 
altered in an attempt to improve security. In ASCII, it checked only 
that a process with a saved PID existed; in Beowulf it also tries to 
compare the invocation string to the program string in the process list. 

While this seems a reasonable idea for most daemons, smokeping seems to 
be a bit of an exception -- it runs under an interpreter (perl), and as 
such the stored PID refers to the perl process launching it; naturally, 
the process string differs from the invocation, being e.g.
"/usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/smokeping --config=/etc/smokeping/config" while 
being launched as "/usr/sbin/smokeping --config=/etc/smokeping/config".

Given this complication, my current personal setup, and my suggestion, 
is to instead check the owner of the process against the $DAEMON_USER 
when stopping, as this is configured to be a package-specific user 
called "smokeping":

< start-stop-daemon --oknodo --stop --retry 3 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --signal 15
> start-stop-daemon --oknodo --stop --retry 3 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --user $DAEMON_USER --signal 15

This seems to work well for me, though I would certainly not be opposed 
to any other working method if this is less than ideal for some reason.

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Devuan bug report logs - #499 Smokeping service unable to stop/restart

Devuan bug report logs - #499
Smokeping service unable to stop/restart