net/mosquitto is an open source (BSD licensed) message broker that implements
the MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol. I use it for event notification.
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In this post:
- FreeBSD 13
- mosquitto 2.0.10
My configuration
Here is what I have in my /etc/rc.conf related to mosquitto:
$ grep mosq /etc/rc.conf mosquitto_enable="YES" mosquitto_user="mosquitto" mosquitto_pidfile="/var/run/mosquitto/mosquitto.pid"
The default value for mosquitto_pidfile is /var/run/mosquitto.pid.
The default user is nobody.
I don’t like either default value. I especially don’t like things running as nobody.
The user
This is the user I use. The exact user id (UID) does not matter. I just let the system decide.
$ grep mosq /etc/passwd mosquitto:*:10003:10003:mosquitto daemon:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
The configuration file
This is a minimal file when running with my configuration.
$ cat /usr/local/etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf cafile /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt log_dest syslog pid_file /var/run/mosquitto/mosquitto.pid
Installing
Installing is just:
$ pkg install mosquitto
Starting
If you get this:
[dan@empty:~] $ sudo service mosquitto start install: /var/run/mosquitto/mosquitto.pid: No such file or directory /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mosquitto: WARNING: failed precmd routine for mosquitto
Then you are probably running as non-root and need to pre-create the new PID directory:
$ sudo mkdir /var/run/mosquitto $ sudo chown mosquitto:mosquitto /var/run/mosquitto $ ls -ld /var/run/mosquitto drwxr-xr-x 2 mosquitto mosquitto 2 Aug 27 22:27 /var/run/mosquitto
Then it works:
$ sudo service mosquitto start $ ps auwwx | grep mosq mosquitto 41344 0.0 0.0 39936 21500 - SsJ 22:28 0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/mosquitto -c /usr/local/etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf -d dan 41355 0.0 0.0 12868 2428 1 S+J 22:29 0:00.00 grep mosq
Hope that helps.