[pkg-go] Bug#891202: Bug#891202: prometheus-alertmanager: False owner/group for /var/lib/prometheus

[Martín Ferrari]

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)