Mosquitto not starting after emonSD update & upgrade

[jeremypoulter]

@glyn.hudson

I will report mosquitto logfile investigation. @jeremypoulter did you hint that you’ve got a fix for this? What was the issue?

Have a look at MQTT Log files:

MQTT Log files

I have just set up a Raspberry Pi with EmonCMS (mostly) following the instructions on building the SD card and I ran into some troubles with Mosquitto not starting (even though the service status was running…). It took a bit of hear pulling but turned out to be that I needed to create /var/log/mosquitto and set the owner as with the other services (in rc.local) So my question is why doe the emonSD image not need this change, or to phrase it another way, what step did i miss ;-)? FYI the versio…