Can't seem to use relative path to ssl_server_cert

[swrobel]

remote_syslog: #<Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - ssl/papertrail.crt

I have the papertrail certificate in my application's code and I'm attempting to access it by giving the relative path to the file. I can't give an absolute path, since my deploy directory depends on the environment, application, etc. Anyway, hardcoding paths sucks. I think it has something to do with this comment regarding Daemonize setting the path to / https://github.com/papertrail/remote_syslog/blob/master/lib/remote_syslog/cli.rb#L171

[troy]

I'm actually not 100% sure that a relative path for the key won't work. Is it possible that the working directory remote_syslog was started in - that is, what ssl/ would be relative to - is not the app root (or wherever ssl/ is). Couple ideas for how to identify the working directory:

• make remote_syslog spit out the directory before it runs this line. A simple way would be to edit tls_endpoint.rb on that system and have it puts Dir.getwd (Dir.getwd), which is that process's working directory.
• find the script that's starting remote_syslog and have it output the working directory. If this is an init script, it may be /, ~root, or a similar system-related path.
• as a last resort, try invoking remote_syslog as a user while in the directory containing ssl/ (with the same arguments is used by the init script).

If one or more of those confirm that the wd is the directory containing ssl/, we're into other options:

• are you able to create a symlink somewhere else in the filesystem, as many deployments scripts do? For example, capistrano creates a current symlink to the current release version.
• if the provisioning system doesn't support creating a symlink, consider putting the file outside the deploy directory or writing the config file or invocation arguments (which specify the path to the cert) as part of the deployment

[swrobel]

I tried your 3rd suggestion, "as a last resort, try invoking remote_syslog as a user while in the directory containing ssl/ (with the same arguments is used by the init script)."

Still get not found even when running it from within the ssl/ dir within my app simply using the following command: bundle exec remote_syslog -c ../config/remote_syslog.yml --dest-port <port> --tls

I also tried adding puts Dir.getwd in the source but it doesn't seem to get output to the command line. It also seemed to me that this was a better place to put it so I tried it there as well - no luck. I've tried adding an additional puts in cli.rb and that comes out, so it isn't that I'm modifying in the wrong gem dir or something.

[troy]

I'm out of easy ideas too. I had one question. You mentioned:

Still get not found even when running it from within the ssl/ dir within my app

Were you in the directory containing ssl/ or in the ssl/ directory itself? I'm guessing that it was just wording, but wanted to confirm.

[swrobel]

I've tried it from both

[troy]

Okay. If you can get it to spit out the wd, it may well be / but there's a chance it'll be something else.