Clean up the code - at the end of the start() function, wait for the start_ftl process and pass it's exit code to stop.

Add in additional while/wait to ensure that after the FTL log exists, it contains the "FTL Started" line

Signed-off-by: Adam Warner <me@adamwarner.co.uk>

src/bash_functions.sh

@@ -199,34 +199,6 @@ setup_web_password() {
     fi
 }
 
-start_ftl() {
-
-    echo "  [i] pihole-FTL pre-start checks"
-
-    # Remove possible leftovers from previous pihole-FTL processes
-    rm -f /dev/shm/FTL-* 2>/dev/null
-    rm -f /run/pihole/FTL.sock
-
-    fix_capabilities
-    sh /opt/pihole/pihole-FTL-prestart.sh
-
-    echo "  [i] Starting pihole-FTL ($FTL_CMD) as ${DNSMASQ_USER}"
-    echo ""
-
-    capsh --user=$DNSMASQ_USER --keep=1 -- -c "/usr/bin/pihole-FTL $FTL_CMD >/dev/null"
-    ftl_exit_code=$?
-    # Store the exit code so that we can exit the container with the same code from start.sh
-    echo $ftl_exit_code >/pihole-FTL.exit
-
-    # pihole-FTL has exited, so we should stop the rest of the container
-    killall --signal 15 start.sh
-
-    # Notes on above:
-    # - DNSMASQ_USER default of pihole is in Dockerfile & can be overwritten by runtime container env
-    # - /var/log/pihole/pihole*.log has FTL's output that no-daemon would normally print in FG too
-    #   prevent duplicating it in docker logs by sending to dev null
-}
-
 fix_capabilities() {
     # Testing on Docker 20.10.14 with no caps set shows the following caps available to the container:
     # Current: cap_chown,cap_dac_override,cap_fowner,cap_fsetid,cap_kill,cap_setgid,cap_setuid,cap_setpcap,cap_net_bind_service,cap_net_raw,cap_sys_chroot,cap_mknod,cap_audit_write,cap_setfcap=ep

src/start.sh

@@ -53,14 +53,34 @@ start() {
   #migrate Gravity Database if needed:
   migrate_gravity
 
-  # Start pihole-FTL in the background
+  echo "  [i] pihole-FTL pre-start checks"
-  start_ftl &
+  # Remove possible leftovers from previous pihole-FTL processes
+  rm -f /dev/shm/FTL-* 2>/dev/null
+  rm -f /run/pihole/FTL.sock
+
+  fix_capabilities
+  sh /opt/pihole/pihole-FTL-prestart.sh
+
+  echo "  [i] Starting pihole-FTL ($FTL_CMD) as ${DNSMASQ_USER}"
+  echo ""
+
+  capsh --user=$DNSMASQ_USER --keep=1 -- -c "/usr/bin/pihole-FTL $FTL_CMD >/dev/null" &
+  # Notes on above:
+  # - DNSMASQ_USER default of pihole is in Dockerfile & can be overwritten by runtime container env
+  # - /var/log/pihole/pihole*.log has FTL's output that no-daemon would normally print in FG too
+  #   prevent duplicating it in docker logs by sending to dev null
+  ftl_pid=$!
 
   # Wait until the log file exists before continuing
   while [ ! -f /var/log/pihole/FTL.log ]; do
     sleep 0.5
   done
 
+  #  Wait until the FTL log contains the "FTL started" message before continuing
+  while ! grep -q '########## FTL started' /var/log/pihole/FTL.log; do
+    sleep 0.5
+  done
+
   # If we are migrating from v5 to v6, we now need to run the basic configuration step that we deferred earlier
   # This is because pihole-FTL needs to migrate the config files before we can perform the basic configuration checks
   if [[ ${v5_volume} -eq 1 ]]; then
@@ -83,11 +103,13 @@ start() {
     echo "  [i] FTL log output is disabled. Remove the Environment variable TAIL_FTL_LOG, or set it to 1 to enable FTL log output."
   fi
 
-  # https://stackoverflow.com/a/49511035
+  # Wait for the ftl process to finish and handle its return
-  wait $!
+  wait $ftl_pid
+  stop $?
 }
 
 stop() {
+  local FTL_EXIT_CODE=$1
 
   # Only attempt to close pihole-FTL if it is running, it may already have crashed
   if pgrep pihole-FTL >/dev/null; then
@@ -104,15 +126,13 @@ stop() {
     while test -d /proc/"${ftl_pid}"; do
       sleep 0.5
     done
+    # Return from this function, it will be called again once FTL finishes
+    return
   fi
 
   # Wait for a few seconds to allow the FTL log tail to catch up before exiting the container
   sleep 2
 
-  # read the FTL exit code from the file created in the `start_ftl` function
-  FTL_EXIT_CODE=$(cat /pihole-FTL.exit)
-  rm /pihole-FTL.exit
-
   # ensure the exit code is an integer, if not set it to 1
   if ! [[ "${FTL_EXIT_CODE}" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
     FTL_EXIT_CODE=1