config.json is wiping itself down #47

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Ghost · 2020-05-22T06:31:43Z

Ghost commented

2020-05-22 06:31:43 +00:00

approx every 1.5-2 weeks, it just wipes itself down to something like:

{[]}

It happened 2 times since I started using greenlock (1.5 month ago). I thought it's some sort of malicious attempts, until the very same happened on my staging server which is strictly accessible by dev team only.

Please ask me questions as I have no clue where to start investigating this issue. All my servers are dedicated-standalone, no other services are up. I don't think hardware matters, so I omit it. My setup is quite classic, except I use manager to control config, I use things like this:

        greenlock.remove({
          subject: old_url
        });
        greenlock.add({
          subject: company.url,
          altnames: [company.url]
        });

parts of teh app (server.js):

...
  greenlock = require('greenlock-express'),
  greenlockCommon = require('./server_greenlock_common'),
...
if (config.server.ssl.enabled) {
  greenlock.init(greenlockCommon).serve(app);
} else {

and server_greenlock_common.js:

const pkg = require('./package.json'),
  os = require('os');

module.exports = {
  packageRoot: __dirname,
  configDir: os.homedir() + '/.greenlock',
  maintainerEmail: pkg.author.email,
  packageAgent: pkg.name + '/' + pkg.version,
  cluster: false
};

approx every 1.5-2 weeks, it just wipes itself down to something like: > {[]} It happened 2 times since I started using greenlock (1.5 month ago). I thought it's some sort of malicious attempts, until the very same happened on my staging server which is strictly accessible by dev team only. Please ask me questions as I have no clue where to start investigating this issue. All my servers are dedicated-standalone, no other services are up. I don't think hardware matters, so I omit it. My setup is quite classic, except I use manager to control config, I use things like this: ``` greenlock.remove({ subject: old_url }); greenlock.add({ subject: company.url, altnames: [company.url] }); ``` parts of teh app (server.js): ``` ... greenlock = require('greenlock-express'), greenlockCommon = require('./server_greenlock_common'), ... if (config.server.ssl.enabled) { greenlock.init(greenlockCommon).serve(app); } else { ``` and server_greenlock_common.js: ``` const pkg = require('./package.json'), os = require('os'); module.exports = { packageRoot: __dirname, configDir: os.homedir() + '/.greenlock', maintainerEmail: pkg.author.email, packageAgent: pkg.name + '/' + pkg.version, cluster: false }; ```

Ghost changed title from ~~config.json is wiping itself up~~ to config.json is wiping itself down

2020-05-22 06:32:03 +00:00

coolaj86 commented

2020-06-12 03:36:20 +00:00

I could have sworn we had a thread about this... I must have dreamt it.

I believe that it's most likely that either permissions are changing (i.e. being run sometimes as a user and sometimes as root), or the volume is being remounted between read-only and read-write.

It's also possible that you are running multiple instances on the same config directory, and they are fighting against each other.

The only time that the config file will become {} is when it is corrupt and has to be re-written.

In what I remember from the thread I thought we had, it ended up being an issue with Docker mounted volumes.

I could have sworn we had a thread about this... I must have dreamt it. I believe that it's most likely that either permissions are changing (i.e. being run sometimes as a user and sometimes as root), or the volume is being remounted between read-only and read-write. It's also possible that you are running multiple instances on the same config directory, and they are fighting against each other. The only time that the config file will become `{}` is when it is corrupt and has to be re-written. In what I remember from the thread I thought we had, it ended up being an issue with Docker mounted volumes.

coolaj86 commented

2020-08-14 07:01:28 +00:00

Closing due to inactivity.

coolaj86 closed this issue

2020-08-14 07:01:28 +00:00

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Reference: root/greenlock-express.js#47