upstart file bridge: "unable to write pid file"

[Brian Murray]

I discovered the following in ~/.cache/upstart/upstart-file-bridge.log:

Job got added /com/ubuntu/Upstart/jobs/unicast_2dlocal_2davahi
upstart-file-bridge: Unable to write pid file: Permission denied

The contents of my job file located in /usr/share/upstart/sessions/ follow:

description "Notification regarding avahi being disabled to due local domain"
author "Brian Murray <email address hidden>"

start on (
    file FILE=/var/run/avahi-daemon/disabled-for-unicast-local EVENT=created
)

script
echo $(date)
echo "avahi disabled"
sleep 5
/usr/lib/update-notifier/local-avahi-notification
end script

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

 $ apt-cache policy upstart
upstart:
  Installed: 1.8-0ubuntu1

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for reporting. I actually fixed this issue in upstream last week:

https://code.launchpad.net/~jamesodhunt/upstart/file-bridge-pidfile+syslog/+merge/156024

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Just a nitpick, why use /var/run/* instead of /run/* ?