traceback when running salt-api unprivileged

[SEJeff]

Should be easy to fix:

[jeff@omniscience salt-ui]$ salt-api -l debug
[INFO    ] Loaded configuration file: /etc/salt/master
[DEBUG   ] Created pidfile: /var/run/salt-master.pid
[DEBUG   ] Failed to set the ownership of PID file /var/run/salt-master.pid to user root
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/utils/process.py", line 47, in set_pidfile
    os.chown(pidfile, uid, gid)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/run/salt-master.pid'
Failed to set the ownership of PID file /var/run/salt-master.pid to user root

[whiteinge]

Ah, interesting. That should be a salt-api.pid file instead. Looks like I'm using the PidfileMixin incorrectly. Thank you for the find!

[s0undt3ch]

This is weird. The default pidfile name is being computed ...

Ah!, I think I know what's going on, hint, hint, default config values.... I can take care of this if you don't...

[s0undt3ch]

There's actually 2 places where this could be fixed. The proper one, salt(but we should be careful there) and salt-api(simpler but does not solve the problem at it's root)....

[s0undt3ch]

#53 fixes the above salt-api.pid issue. I won't fix the permissions issue(yet).

[s0undt3ch]

That traceback is shown as part of the debug message, if the debug level is enabled, if not, you just see the permissions message.

So I think this is fixed? @SEJeff ?

[whiteinge]

Thanks, @s0undt3ch !

[s0undt3ch]

No problem!