
In the prestart config of the smokeping service, smokeping is executed initially. This happens as the user root and writes some files to $smokepingHome, which can't be overwritten by the smokeping user. This gives an error message. I fixed this by moving the chown step after the initial smokeping runs, so that it also affects the generated files.
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