Rubenerd

I was configuring an S3 backup target for Comet backup server on Monday, like a gentleman, when the page went blank. I restarted the server and checked its status:

$ sudo service cometd status

And got this result:

cometd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
cometd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
cometd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Stopped Comet Server
cometd.service: Start request reported too quickly
cometd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'
cometd.service: Failed to start Comet Server.

Welp! Something I changed must have done something. I tailed the logs and restarted:

$ cd /var/log/cometd/
$ tail -F *log

And found the issue:

Couldn't connect to storage: Connect: Endpoint: $DOMAIN/ does not \
follow ip address or domain name standards.

Comet doesn’t seem to like trailing slashes. Maybe I need to put in a feature request to detect them.

You can fix it checking the config file:

# vi /etc/cometd/cometd.cfg

And removing the trailing forwardslash:

"S3Server": "$DOMAIN"

Now you can restart the server, and it’ll work.