Unable to get the sshd service up

[Guilherme Silva]

Hello,

I've followed the installation/setup guide from both the Wiki and the README from this repository, but I'm getting this error whenever I try to run/enable the sshd service:

$ sv up sshd
warning: sshd: can't open supervise/ok: No such file or directory

And yes, I did a complete restart of Termux after I installed termux-services. Not sure if this is relevant or not, but I'm not using bash as my default shell, I'm using fish.

There's no sv directory in my $PREFIX/var/log/ as well:

$ ls -la $PREFIX/var/log/
total 32
drwx------ 3 u0_a139 u0_a139 4096 Dec 29 11:49 .
drwx------ 9 u0_a139 u0_a139 4096 Dec 29 13:47 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 u0_a139 u0_a139  853 Jan  1 10:03 alternatives.log
drwx------ 2 u0_a139 u0_a139 4096 Jan  3 10:34 apt

Can you guys help?
Thanks!

[Guilherme Silva]

Also this:

$ service-daemon restart
Restarting daemon: service-daemonno process in pidfile '/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/var/run/service-daemon.pid' found; none killed
cat: /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/var/run/service-daemon.pid: No such file or directory
tail: invalid PID: ‘’

[Guilherme Silva]

Yep, it doesn't work because fish is my default shell.

Reason: The termux-services package installs a script named start-services.sh to $PREFIX/etc/profile.d, which, if you have a POSIX-compliant shell, will always run once you open the Termux app. The problem is that Fish is not POSIX-compliant, so it won't read anything from the profile.d directory.

Instead, Fish reads its files (a.k.a. *.fish scripts) from a different directory, which is the output of: pkg-config --variable confdir fish, which is set at compile time and it currently points to: $PREFIX/share/fish/vendor_conf.d (here's the documentation).

So a proper fix to this, would be creating a start-services.fish script and placing it on: $PREFIX/share/fish/vendor_conf.d.

Doing it manually:

# open a temporary bash session
$ bash
# create the vendor_conf.d directory
$ mkdir -p $PREFIX/share/fish/vendor_conf.d
# create the start-services.fish script
$ cat << EOF > $PREFIX/share/fish/vendor_conf.d/start-services.fish
if status --is-login
    # For more details, see set(1)
    set -gx SVDIR $PREFIX/var/service
    set -gx LOGDIR $PREFIX/var/log
    service-daemon start >/dev/null 2>&1 &
end
EOF

Restart Termux, so that start-services.fish is loaded. Then, try starting/enabling any service (for example, sshd):

$ sv up sshd
# now check its status:
$ sv status sshd
run: sshd: (pid 7023) 10s, normally down; down: log: 0s, normally up, want up

It works now. That's it.

Now, it's up to the maintainers of termux-services to include this Fish script by default, so I'll leave this issue open until they decide it, but feel free to close it whenever you want.

Thanks!

[Henrik Grimler]

Hi, thanks for investigating and posting the fish script here!

I added it in 43bc206. I'm not a fish user myself so this was greatly appreciated!

[Guilherme Silva]

Hey, thanks for including the script!

However, I noticed that the script was installed to $(PREFIX)/etc/fish/conf.d, and even though the official documentation does say scripts will be loaded from there at startup as well, mine didn't when I placed it there. It could be something misconfigured on my end, but could you please make sure the script loads at least with vanilla Fish? Thanks.

[Guilherme Silva]

Never mind. I was actually putting the script on $(PREFIX)/etc/fish/ instead. 🤦‍♂

It works, thanks.