beesd not using config

[ibrokemypie]

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Hello, I am on gentoo and installed bees 0.6, copying the sample config to /etc/bees/beesd.conf which contains the following:

## Config for Bees: /etc/bees/beesd.conf.sample
## https://github.com/Zygo/bees
## It's a default values, change it, if needed

# How to use?
# Copy this file to a new file name and adjust the UUID below

# Which FS will be used
#UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
UUID="0156a51d-8688-4494-90d3-c9c13de0aa6d"

## System Vars
# Change carefully
WORK_DIR=/run/bees/
MNT_DIR="$WORK_DIR/mnt/$UUID"
BEESHOME="$MNT_DIR/.beeshome"
BEESSTATUS="$WORK_DIR/$UUID.status"

## Options to apply, see `beesd --help` for details
# OPTIONS="--strip-paths --no-timestamps"
OPTIONS="--scan-mode 2"

## Bees DB size
# Hash Table Sizing
# sHash table entries are 16 bytes each
# (64-bit hash, 52-bit block number, and some metadata bits)
# Each entry represents a minimum of 4K on disk.
# unique data size    hash table size    average dedup block size
#     1TB                 4GB                  4K
#     1TB                 1GB                 16K
#     1TB               256MB                 64K
#     1TB                16MB               1024K
#    64TB                 1GB               1024K
#
# Size MUST be power of 16M
DB_SIZE=$((32*$AL16M)) # 1G in bytes

however running sudo beesd just prints the help information. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

[kakra]

Could you try without the quotes around the UUID var content?

[ibrokemypie]

same thing with UUID=0156a51d-8688-4494-90d3-c9c13de0aa6d

[ibrokemypie]

ah, running sudo beesd 0156a51d-8688-4494-90d3-c9c13de0aa6d works fine, maybe I just misunderstood it's usage? just assumed it would take that from the config if it was present.

[kakra]

The beesd script works by looking up the UUID from all the config files and selecting the right one. Can this be closed then?

[kakra]

OTOH, maybe keep this open and we should provide better examples and docs for this.

[ghost]

I was wondering the same. So there should be one config for each UUID, and then bees will look in /etc/bees/*.conf for a file matching the UUID specified on the command line, beesd 0156a51d-8688-4494-90d3-c9c13de0aa6d? This could be made much clearer :D

[dim-geo]

Actually beesd should abolish uuid argument and accept only a config file as input. Then you start each instance as: beesd home.conf beesd root.conf etc. UUID argument is error prone.