Merge pull request #172 from mcnewton/infiles

[netdata.git] / netdata-installer.sh

diff --git a/netdata-installer.sh b/netdata-installer.sh
index 88333478d9ba08108cde8890ba4f93ce414770bb..7a00a56cecf97bf67a973e4951c9ae866911a807 100755 (executable)
--- a/netdata-installer.sh
+++ b/netdata-installer.sh
@@ -314,7 +314,10 @@ do
 
        count=$((count + 1))
 
-       pid=$(cat /var/run/netdata/netdata.pid 2>/dev/null)
+       pid=$(cat /var/run/netdata.pid 2>/dev/null)
+       # backwards compatibility
+       [ -z "${pid}" ] && pid=$(cat /var/run/netdata/netdata.pid 2>/dev/null)
+       
        isnetdata $pid || pid=
        if [ ! -z "${pid}" ]
                then
@@ -334,7 +337,7 @@ echo >&2
 # run netdata
 
 echo >&2 "Starting netdata..."
-run ${NETDATA_PREFIX}/usr/sbin/netdata "${@}"
+run ${NETDATA_PREFIX}/usr/sbin/netdata -pidfile /var/run/netdata.pid "${@}"
 
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]
        then