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opened 2026-05-03 20:58:16 +00:00 by Esjott · 2 comments

Esjott commented

2026-05-03 20:58:16 +00:00

Hey,

I am so glad that I found your repo! I am fiddling with continuwuity quite a bit building it under FreeBSD, however with 0.5.8 I gave up..

I am running 15.0-p8 on latest with rocksdb-10.10.1 and installed the 0.5.8-generic variant. However starting thrws some rc-script issues:

# service -v continuwuity start
continuwuity is located in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
Starting continuwuity.
Unmatched '"'.
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/continuwuity: WARNING: failed to start continuwuity

If I start it directly via # su -m continuwuity -c '/usr/local/bin/continuwuity -c /usr/local/etc/continuwuity/continuwuity.toml' it starts.

My knowlege for rc-scripting is totally not existing (tried to solve it though but gave up..) - do you have a hint where to start (and whats gooing in the wrong direction?

Greetings
Sven

Hey, I am so glad that I found your repo! I am fiddling with continuwuity quite a bit building it under FreeBSD, however with 0.5.8 I gave up.. I am running 15.0-p8 on latest with rocksdb-10.10.1 and installed the 0.5.8-generic variant. However starting thrws some rc-script issues: ``` # service -v continuwuity start continuwuity is located in /usr/local/etc/rc.d Starting continuwuity. Unmatched '"'. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/continuwuity: WARNING: failed to start continuwuity ``` If I start it directly via `# su -m continuwuity -c '/usr/local/bin/continuwuity -c /usr/local/etc/continuwuity/continuwuity.toml' ` it starts. My knowlege for rc-scripting is totally not existing (tried to solve it though but gave up..) - do you have a hint where to start (and whats gooing in the wrong direction? Greetings Sven

Esjott commented

2026-05-05 20:14:51 +00:00

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Found it:

daemon.log shows a number of

May 4 21:06:23 host continuwuity[25924]: Error: TOML parse error at line 1, column 15 | 1 | database_path=/var/db/continuwuity | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ string values must be quoted, expected literal string

entries. I removed the -O database_path="'\\\"'"${continuwuity_data_dir}"'\\\"'" and -O log_colors=false -c from the rc-script. The data dir is mentioned in the continuwuity.toml and the color bug doesn't bother me (I am the only user on the server). To be on the safe side I escaped the -c /path/to/config.toml, my command_args line looks like that now:

command_args="-S -p ${pidfile} -T continuwuity ${procname} -c \"/usr/local/etc/continuwuity/continuwuity.toml\""

and it works, continuwuity starts :)

Found it: daemon.log shows a number of `May 4 21:06:23 host continuwuity[25924]: Error: TOML parse error at line 1, column 15 | 1 | database_path=/var/db/continuwuity | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ string values must be quoted, expected literal string ` entries. I removed the `-O database_path="'\\\"'"${continuwuity_data_dir}"'\\\"'"` and `-O log_colors=false -c` from the rc-script. The data dir is mentioned in the continuwuity.toml and the color bug doesn't bother me (I am the only user on the server). To be on the safe side I escaped the -c /path/to/config.toml, my command_args line looks like that now: `command_args="-S -p ${pidfile} -T continuwuity ${procname} -c \"/usr/local/etc/continuwuity/continuwuity.toml\""` and it works, continuwuity starts :)

katie commented

2026-05-07 06:59:05 +00:00

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The original error from the service command is odd, that sounds like it came from the shell, but I can't imagine why that would be returned unless $continuwuity_data_dir was explicitly empty or had a quote in it or something. I'll have to see if providing a later value in continuwuity.toml conflicts with it somehow.

The original error from the `service` command is odd, that sounds like it came from the shell, but I can't imagine why that would be returned unless `$continuwuity_data_dir` was explicitly empty or had a quote in it or something. I'll have to see if providing a later value in `continuwuity.toml` conflicts with it somehow.

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