startController is not working.

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Could you please tell me about it?
It did not work after reading the instructions and typing the starter router command.
It did not work even if I changed the variables in the env file and read them in with the source command.
What is the cause?

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Hi @schinatsu, welcome to the community. the startController function is just a small helper that does these commands:

function startController {
  log_file="${ZITI_HOME-}/${ZITI_EDGE_CONTROLLER_RAWNAME}.log"
  # shellcheck disable=SC2034
  "${ZITI_BIN_DIR-}/ziti-controller" run "${ZITI_HOME_OS_SPECIFIC}/${ZITI_EDGE_CONTROLLER_RAWNAME}.yaml" &> "${log_file}" &
  ZITI_EXPRESS_CONTROLLER_PID=$!
  echo -e "ziti-controller started as process id: $ZITI_EXPRESS_CONTROLLER_PID. log located at: $(BLUE "${log_file}")"
}

You can see, it’s just running this single command:

"${ZITI_BIN_DIR-}/ziti-controller" run "${ZITI_HOME_OS_SPECIFIC}/${ZITI_EDGE_CONTROLLER_RAWNAME}.yaml" &> "${log_file}"

some things to check:

  • can you run “${ZITI_BIN_DIR-}/ziti-controller”? Does that executable execute properly?
  • is there a file located at “${ZITI_HOME_OS_SPECIFIC}/${ZITI_EDGE_CONTROLLER_RAWNAME}.yaml”?
  • the log file it redirects to is located at “${log_file}”. Is there any error in that file?

Can you look to see if a log was created, and if there’s anything in the log that looks like an error?

You could try to just run the ziti-controller binary with the yaml as a parameter. For example, on my local computer that looks like this:

$ /home/cd/.ziti/quickstart/sg3/ziti-bin/ziti-v0.26.11/ziti-controller run /home/cd/.ziti/quickstart/sg3/sg3.yaml