Running configuration different from configuration file

[denis-arruda]

Bug report

System info:
InfluxDB 0.12.2
Fedora 23
Kernel 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64
In Oracle VM VirtualBox

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install InfluxDB using file "influxdb-0.12.2-1.x86_64.rpm"
2. Change the configuration file in /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf
3. Restart influxd service

Expected behavior:
When I execute the command "influxd config" the configuration shown should be same of the file /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf

Actual behavior:
The configuration shown with "influxd config" command is different from the configuration in file /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf

Additional info:

1. The head of file /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf

[root@fedora54 ~]# cat /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf | more
### Welcome to the InfluxDB configuration file.

# Once every 24 hours InfluxDB will report anonymous data to m.influxdb.com
# The data includes raft id (random 8 bytes), os, arch, version, and metadata.
# We don't track ip addresses of servers reporting. This is only used
# to track the number of instances running and the versions, which
# is very helpful for us.
# Change this option to true to disable reporting.
reporting-disabled = true

# we'll try to get the hostname automatically, but if it the os returns somethin
g
# that isn't resolvable by other servers in the cluster, use this option to
# manually set the hostname
hostname = ""

###
### [meta]
###
### Controls the parameters for the Raft consensus group that stores metadata
### about the InfluxDB cluster.
###

[meta]
  # Where the metadata/raft database is stored
  dir = "/var/lib/influxdb/meta"

  retention-autocreate = true

--More--

1. The running configuration:

[root@fedora54 ~]# influxd config | more
reporting-disabled = false
bind-address = ":8088"
hostname = ""
join = ""

[meta]
  dir = "/root/.influxdb/meta"
  retention-autocreate = true
  logging-enabled = true
  pprof-enabled = false
  lease-duration = "1m0s"

[data]
  dir = "/root/.influxdb/data"
  engine = "tsm1"
  wal-dir = "/root/.influxdb/wal"
  wal-logging-enabled = true
  query-log-enabled = true
  cache-max-memory-size = 524288000
  cache-snapshot-memory-size = 26214400
  cache-snapshot-write-cold-duration = "1h0m0s"
  compact-full-write-cold-duration = "24h0m0s"
  max-points-per-block = 0
--More--

1. The running process:

[root@fedora54 ~]# ps aux | grep influxdb
influxdb   926  0.0  0.3 117512  2752 ?        Ss   14:58   0:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/influxd -config /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf  >>/dev/null 2>>/var/log/influxdb/influxd.log
influxdb   930  1.0  2.6 203944 21432 ?        Sl   14:58   0:04 /usr/bin/influxd -config /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf
root      1418  0.0  0.2 117020  2240 pts/0    S+   15:05   0:00 grep --color=auto influxdb

1. Environment variable:

[root@fedora54 ~]# echo $INFLUXDB_CONFIG_PATH

[root@fedora54 ~]#

1. Configuration file properties:

[root@fedora54 ~]# ls -oa /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf
-rw-r--r--. 1 influxdb 10001 Mai 12 14:57 /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf
[root@fedora54 ~]#

[denis-arruda]

I installed InfluxDB version 0.13.0 in the same environment and now the configuration is working!

[jsternberg]

Support was added for this in #6444. If you want to use another configuration location or need to have this work in 0.12, use influxd config -config /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf.

I'm glad it's working now for you!