[Bug 1176178] [NEW] Setting pid in memcached.conf causes strange behavior

[Johnny Shields]

Public bug reported:

In memcached.conf, if I set this line:

# pid file
-P /var/run/memcached.pid

Then when I run

sudo service memcached start

I observe two strange behaviors:

1) The following log lines appears:

WARNING: The pid file contained the following (running) pid: 19
Could not open the pid file /var/run/memcached.pid for writing: permission denied

(the second line only appears when I set the user to "-u memcache",
rather than "-u root")

2) The sudo service memcached start command does not daemonize until I
press <enter>


I'm running Ubuntu precise (12.04.2 LTS), with the most recent memcached package installed.

** Affects: memcached (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  In memcached.conf, if I set this line:
  
  # pid file
  -P /var/run/memcached.pid
  
  Then when I run
  
  sudo service memcached start
  
  I observe two strange behaviors:
  
  1) The following log lines appears:
  
  WARNING: The pid file contained the following (running) pid: 19
  Could not open the pid file /var/run/memcached.pid for writing: permission denied
  
- (the second line only appears when I have "-u memcache" set as well)
+ (the second line only appears when I set the user to "-u memcache",
+ rather than "-u root")
  
  2) The sudo service memcached start command does not daemonize until I
  press <enter>

** Description changed:

  In memcached.conf, if I set this line:
  
  # pid file
  -P /var/run/memcached.pid
  
  Then when I run
  
  sudo service memcached start
  
  I observe two strange behaviors:
  
  1) The following log lines appears:
  
  WARNING: The pid file contained the following (running) pid: 19
  Could not open the pid file /var/run/memcached.pid for writing: permission denied
  
  (the second line only appears when I set the user to "-u memcache",
  rather than "-u root")
  
  2) The sudo service memcached start command does not daemonize until I
  press <enter>
+ 
+ 
+ I'm running Ubuntu precise (12.04.2 LTS), with the most recent memcached package installed.

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  Setting pid in memcached.conf causes strange behavior

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