Hi Reinhard, On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:46:52PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > In the lenny version, this worked just fine and collectd continued to > work. In squeeze, collectd fails to start with this error message: > > Restarting statistics collection and monitoring daemon: > collectdconfigfile: stat (/etc/collectd/conf.d/*.conf) failed: No such > file or directoryconfigfile: stat (/etc/collectd/conf.d/*.conf) > failed: No such file or directory.
the code in question uses the wordexp(3) function to do a shell-like pattern expansion. Like the shell, the expansion only takes place if a file actually matches the pattern, otherwise the argument / pattern is passed on / returned as is. Unfortunately, as far as I can see, no indication of this condition is given. So the described behavior is expected and has been like this since the feature was introduced in version 4.3 (Lenny features 4.4.2-3). If you have any idea how I could detect a "pattern not found" condition, please let me know. The only idea why the Lenny package behaved differently I can come up with right now is, if the Lenny package shipped a file matching that pattern. A quick look at the files in the 4.4.2-3 package doesn't support this thesis though. As a work-around I recommend either installing an empty dummy file to satisfy the pattern or include the directory rather than a "*.conf" pattern (assuming the directory exists). Best regards, —octo -- Florian octo Forster Hacker in training GnuPG: 0x91523C3D http://verplant.org/
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