chown: invalid group user:user

[martinstuder]

I'm using sbt-native-packager 1.1.0-RC3 with a Play Framework 2.3.8 application. Following some hints in #554 and playframework/playframework#4242 I got things as far as I can start and stop the application. When doing so, however, I encounter the following error:

[ZZZZZ /usr/share/app/conf]# service app start
chown: invalid group: `user:user'
Starting app:                                         [  OK  ]

Looking into the corresponding /etc/init.d/app script (on RHEL 6.4), I see

# create PIDDIR where PIDFILE will be kept
if [ -z "${PIDDIR:-}" ]; then
    PIDDIR=/var/run/app/
    mkdir -p $PIDDIR && chown $DAEMON_USER:$DAEMON_USER $PIDDIR
fi

Note the line chown $DAEMON_USER:$DAEMON_USER. Shouldn't it say chown $DAEMON_USER:$DAEMON_GROUP?

[muuki88]

Hi @martinstuder

Thanks for you report. Indeed this looks like a bug. I assume daemonUser and daemonGroup have different settings in your build.sbt? ( a small sample to reproduce is always nice :) )

Would like to make a PR. The rpm-start-template should be pretty simple to touch.

Another note: IIRC play-2.3.8 is based on a pre-autoplugin (< 1.x.x.) version of native-packager, which creates some bizarre effects, when using both together. Since play 2.4.x the native-packager autoplugins are being used.