Caddy service

[omnigenous]

I'm trying to setup service for Caddy for local unimportant stuff.

Tried adapting from https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/caddy/-/blob/main/caddy.service?ref_type=heads

/etc/dinit.d/caddy:

type = process
command = /usr/bin/caddy run --environ --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
logfile = /var/log/dinit/caddy.log

but it fails horribly after less than a second:

Service: caddy
    State: STOPPED (terminated; exited - status 1)

Worst part is that there is nothing in logfile and it runs just fine on terminal: sudo caddy run --environ --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile

Not sure what I'm missing.

[mobin-2008]

Hi.

Judging by mentioned service, Looks like it needs some environment variables to start (which are defined in your shell by default). Try to use a env-file with caddy service and set these variables in that env-file:

XDG_DATA_HOME=/var/lib
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/etc

[omnigenous]

Also how would I know how to fix a problem if it wasn't this? Is it caddy not reporting the problem (besides exit status code) or dinit?

[davmac314]

Replicate the environment in a shell and try running there to see what happens?

[omnigenous]

Well, yeah, that's what I did but there was no error because env's that mobin mentioned were defined in shell but not in dinit environment which was not immediately obvious to me. I would figure it out eventually because I had systemd service as a reference but only because of that.

[davmac314]

env's that mobin mentioned were defined in shell but not in dinit

Then you didn't replicate the environment that the problem occurs in, so no it's not what you did.

sudo -i
unset XDG_DATA_HOME
unset XDG_CONFIG_HOME
/usr/bin/caddy run --environ --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile

[ArchGuyWu]

Yeah! That did it. Thank you!

Is there a convention for where to place env files? Or just your personal advice where to put it. I'm on Artix if that matters.

/etc/dinit.d/caddy
/etc/dinit.d/caddy.env # should I create /etc/dinit.d/env and put it there?

I place env and override files under /etc/dinit.d/config