Service "deluged" won't get/set its config files from /var/lib/deluge/.config/deluge but from /root/.config/deluge

[jfcolom]

System

• package:
  *deluge-2.0.3_10

Expected behavior

deluged service should start up with deluge system user, and therefore, get/set its configuration files from /var/lib/deluge/.config/deluge

Actual behavior

It is starts with root and, therefore, it gets/sets the configuration from /root/.config/deluge. As it cannot write there after that, there are some permission errors and it does not start properly.

Workaround

In /etc/sv/deluged/run, replace

exec deluged -d -U deluge -g deluge ${OPTS} 2>&1

by

exec chpst -u deluge:deluge deluged -d -U deluge -g deluge ${OPTS} 2>&1

[sgn]

I think we can go further to move config to /var/lib/deluge, without .config/deluge part. Please check.

[jfcolom]

Thanx!

[q66]

this is a bad fix, it broke my use case (i override the user it is started as, with /etc/sv/deluged/conf, but the chpst to unprivileged user means it can't change user on its own later)

[q66]

@sgn the proper fix is to keep things as they were, but pass -c /var/lib/deluge before ${OPTS}

[sgn]

Maybe this #32357

[sgn]

Hm, keep things as it were shouldn't work at all deluge-torrent/deluge@d08c3f7

[jfcolom]

deluged is now getting its configuration from /var/lib/deluge/.config instead of /var/lib/deluge/.config/deluge
This breaks deluge-web service or, at any rate creates some inconsistency, as deluge-web gets its configuration from /var/lib/deluge/.config/deluge.

Workaround: in /etc/sv/deluged/run, set the configuration path
exec deluged -d -U deluge -g deluge -c /var/lib/deluge/.config/deluge ${OPTS} 2>&1

Another workaround: do not start deluged service (sv start deluge), but launch deluged process from the web interface offered by deluge-web.

[sgn]

deluged is now getting its configuration from /var/lib/deluge/.config instead of /var/lib/deluge/.config/deluge
This breaks deluge-web service or, at any rate creates some inconsistency, as deluge-web gets its configuration from /var/lib/deluge/.config/deluge.

Workaround: in /etc/sv/deluged/run, set the configuration path
exec deluged -d -U deluge -g deluge -c /var/lib/deluge/.config/deluge ${OPTS} 2>&1

Fixed, :( programming is hard.
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[jfcolom]

Thanks