Few problems (and solutions) with the systemd scripts on CentOS 7 about bitcoin

[error10]

Hi,

I'm investigating the missing PID file now. I was able to reproduce this problem on a fresh CentOS 7 system.

(Note that the path is more-or-less correct; /run is where PID files go. It used to be /var/run and this was moved, but one symlinked to the other.)

I also verified that your change to ExecStart fixes that problem, so I'll be putting that in.

Stay tuned...

[kaipila]

Hey!

/var/run or /run, in either case the user bitcoin probably does not have
permissions to write to that directory, so that's why I changed the PID
file location to /var/lib/bitcoin, since there the user has privileges.

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 6:34 PM, error10 [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

I'm investigating the missing PID file now. I was able to reproduce this
problem on a fresh CentOS 7 system.

(Note that the path is more-or-less correct; /run is where PID files go.
It used to be /var/run and this was moved, but one symlinked to the other.)

I also verified that your change to ExecStart fixes that problem, so I'll
be putting that in.

Stay tuned...

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
#5 (comment).

Antti Kaipila
Skype: Kaipila

[error10]

Hi again,

My aim with this repo is to produce packages that will eventually be able to ship officially as part of the Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions. As such I try to build them in accordance with the distribution packaging guidelines. One of those is that all files must be in standard locations.

It was easy enough to fix the problem with the PID file, as it turns out systemd will create a directory under /run for bitcoind to use and give it the proper permissions. This is working its way through the build server now, and will be released as 0.10.0-2 later tonight.

[kaipila]

Here we go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auDmlbaH590

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:19 PM, error10 [email protected] wrote:

Hi again,

My aim with this repo is to produce packages that will eventually be able
to ship officially as part of the Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
distributions. As such I try to build them in accordance with the
distribution packaging guidelines
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines. One of those is
that all files must be in standard locations
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Filesystem_Layout.

It was easy enough to fix the problem with the PID file, as it turns out
systemd will create a directory under /run for bitcoind to use and give it
the proper permissions. This is working its way through the build server
now, and will be released as 0.10.0-2 later tonight.

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
#5 (comment).

Antti Kaipila
Skype: Kaipila

[error10]

0.10.0-3 has been pushed to the repositories and addresses both issues reported here.

Note that PID_FILE has been removed as a configurable option; if you really need to edit this (you should not) then edit a copy of the unit file.