Ah, sorry, now I see that you are reporting against the version in stable. There is not much I can do to fix that, the version in testing does not have this issue.
What I can do (and I had forgotten to do before), is to backport that version to stretch. On 23/02/18 14:48, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Hi, > > On 23/02/18 12:17, tuxcoder wrote: > >> The service trys to `mkdir /var/lib/prometheus/alertmanager` on startup, >> but the dir `/var/lib/prometheus` is owned by root. >> >> If the package `prometheus` is installed first this is not the case. > Uhm, I think you are mistaken, or I missed something. > > The directory is created when unpacking the deb file: > > $ dpkg -L prometheus-alertmanager | grep /var/lib/ > /var/lib/prometheus > /var/lib/prometheus/alertmanager > > Then the post-installation script does this: > > chown -R prometheus:prometheus /var/lib/prometheus/alertmanager || true > chown -R prometheus:prometheus /var/log/prometheus || true > > And the initsciprt does this (as root): > > mkdir -p `dirname $PIDFILE` || true > chown -R $USER: `dirname $LOGFILE` > chown -R $USER: `dirname $PIDFILE` > > So, I don't know where you saw that mkdir, nor where it could be a problem. > -- Martín Ferrari (Tincho)
