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Documented here: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/197682/telegraf-service-not-starting-after-change-of-setting

The Telegraf service does not restart when applying new settings. The root cause seems to be related to the use of the daemon and no wait between rc_stop and and rc_start in rc_restart. Solved by inserting a pwait after the kill:

--- /usr/local/pkg/telegraf.inc 2025-05-15 17:55:23.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/local/pkg/telegraf.inc.new     2025-06-03 16:28:00.675486000 +0200
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
        write_rcfile(array(
                "file" => "telegraf.sh",
                "start" => "/usr/sbin/daemon -crP {$pidfile} /usr/local/bin/telegraf -config={$conffile} 2> {$logfile}",
-               "stop" => "/bin/kill `/bin/cat {$pidfile}`" 
+               "stop" => "pid=`/bin/cat {$pidfile}`; /bin/kill \$pid; pwait \$pid" 
                )
        );