ddclient expects ddclient.conf to be present at /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf

[Cameronwyatt]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Current Behavior

The current docs have you mount the ddclient.conf file in /config, but when ddclient runs it is expecting it to be present in /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf

# ddclient --verbose
WARNING:  file /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf: Cannot open file '/etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf'. (No such file or directory)
stat() on closed filehandle FD at /usr/bin/ddclient line 1578.
Use of uninitialized value $mode in bitwise and (&) at /usr/bin/ddclient line 1579.
-o on closed filehandle FD at /usr/bin/ddclient line 1584.
-w on closed filehandle FD at /usr/bin/ddclient line 1584.
Use of uninitialized value $mode in bitwise and (&) at /usr/bin/ddclient line 1587.
readline() on closed filehandle FD at /usr/bin/ddclient line 1594.
WARNING:  file /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf: Cannot open file '/etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf'. (No such file or directory)
stat() on closed filehandle FD at /usr/bin/ddclient line 1578.
Use of uninitialized value $mode in bitwise and (&) at /usr/bin/ddclient line 1579.
-o on closed filehandle FD at /usr/bin/ddclient line 1584.
-w on closed filehandle FD at /usr/bin/ddclient line 1584.
Use of uninitialized value $mode in bitwise and (&) at /usr/bin/ddclient line 1587.
readline() on closed filehandle FD at /usr/bin/ddclient line 1594.

Expected Behavior

No response

Steps To Reproduce

I'm running a podman quadlet, but still followed the same volume mounting instructions from here, which recommend mounting the ddclient.conf file in /config:

    volumes:
      - /path/to/ddclient/config:/config

Recommend changing this to

    volumes:
      - /path/to/ddclient/config:/etc/ddclient

One thing to note, that ddclient.conf should only be read-able by the user, or ddclient complains:
-r-x------ 1 root root 8871 Dec 26 15:53 ddclient.conf

Environment

OS: CentOS Stream 10
How: Podman quadlet, but using the config options mapped from the docker-compose example

CPU architecture

x86-64

Docker creation

[Unit]
Description=ddclient
After=network-online.target

[Container]
Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/ddclient:latest
ContainerName=ddclient
AutoUpdate=registry

Volume=%h/volumes/ddclient:/etc/ddclient:Z

Environment="TZ=America/New_York"
Environment="PUID=1000"
Environment="PGID=1000"

Secret=cloudflare-dns-api,type=env,target=CLOUDFLARE_DNS_API

[Service]
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Container logs

podman logs ddclient
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[Roxedus]

It is not supported to run the command manually. The service looks in the correct place

[Cameronwyatt]

Fair enough. I ran into this while doing a bunch of testing using the cloudflare protocol in ddclient. But just updated it back to /config for the volume and it worked fine. Thanks for the quick response, closing.