Re: [mosquitto-dev] Changes in latest version breaks watchdog

[Greg Troxel <gdt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Rockett <p.rockett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> OK. As I said, I have a far more robust watchdog test that the broker
> is still functioning rather than merely occupying memory space. So I
> could - and probably will - quite happily drop the checking of the PID
> file. The fact remains, however, that the broker does not  behave in
> the way that the docs says it should... at least for me.

I'd suggest using something like ktrace (strace? ktruss?) on the
daemon, and starting it with extra debugging and foreground mode and
then look over the system calls it made and what replies it got.  And
perhaps that it read the config file you think it is reading.