FreeBSD and persistence db

[rajil]

I am trying to setup mosquitto on FreeBSD-11. Unfortunately, the persistence db doesn't work for me.

My config is as follows:

# cat /usr/local/etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf
pid_file /var/run/mosquitto.pid
user nobody

port 8883
allow_anonymous false
password_file /usr/local/etc/mosquitto/pwfile
acl_file /usr/local/etc/mosquitto/aclfile
protocol mqtt
cafile /usr/local/etc/chain-ca.pem
certfile /usr/local/etc/cert.pem
keyfile /usr/local/etc/privkey.pem
require_certificate false


persistence true
persistence_file mosquitto.db
persistence_location /usr/local/etc/mosquitto/

log_dest file /var/log/mosquitto.log
log_dest syslog
log_dest stdout
log_dest topic

log_type error
log_type warning
log_type notice
log_type information
connection_messages true
log_timestamp true

Mosquitto is supposed to run as user 'nobody' and persistence file has the correct owner and permissions.

# ls -la /usr/local/etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.db
-rwxrwxrwx  1 nobody  nobody  0 Nov 20 09:41 /usr/local/etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.db

However, mosquitto doesn't start

# mosquitto -v -c /usr/local/etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf
1479657821: Error: Invalid argument.
1479657821: Error: Couldn't open database.

[ralight]

An empty persistence file is treated as an error. It should never happen.

I would recommend running mosquitto under a "mosquitto" user and giving that user access to a directory which it has write permission to, then telling it to store the persistence db there.

[ralight]

This should be fixed now.