Config file needs full path

wfong@willcn:~$ ls -la maxscale.cnf 

-rw-rw-r-- 1 wfong wfong 520 Jul 10 09:50 maxscale.cnf

wfong@willcn:~$ maxscale -f maxscale.cnf 

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* Error : Failed to open, read or process the MaxScale configuration file. Exiting. See the error log for details.     

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wfong@willcn:~$ tail -n7 /var/log/syslog

Jul 10 10:28:35 willcn maxscale[30733]: Configuration file: maxscale.cnf

Jul 10 10:28:35 willcn maxscale[30733]: Log directory: /tmp

Jul 10 10:28:35 willcn maxscale[30733]: Data directory: /home/wfong/maxscale

Jul 10 10:28:35 willcn maxscale[30733]: Module directory: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/maxscale

Jul 10 10:28:35 willcn maxscale[30733]: Service cache: /tmp/maxscale_cache

Jul 10 10:28:35 willcn maxscale[30733]: Failed to open file 'maxscale.cnf': No such file or directory

Jul 10 10:28:35 willcn maxscale[30733]: Failed to open, read or process the MaxScale configuration file maxscale.cnf. Exiting.

wfong@willcn:~$ maxscale -f ./maxscale.cnf 

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* Error : Failed to open, read or process the MaxScale configuration file. Exiting. See the error log for details.     

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wfong@willcn:~$ tail -n7 /var/log/syslog

Jul 10 10:29:38 willcn maxscale[30747]: Configuration file: ./maxscale.cnf

Jul 10 10:29:38 willcn maxscale[30747]: Log directory: /tmp

Jul 10 10:29:38 willcn maxscale[30747]: Data directory: /home/wfong/maxscale

Jul 10 10:29:38 willcn maxscale[30747]: Module directory: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/maxscale

Jul 10 10:29:38 willcn maxscale[30747]: Service cache: /tmp/maxscale_cache

Jul 10 10:29:38 willcn maxscale[30747]: Failed to open file './maxscale.cnf': No such file or directory

Jul 10 10:29:38 willcn maxscale[30747]: Failed to open, read or process the MaxScale configuration file ./maxscale.cnf. Exiting.

wfong@willcn:~$ maxscale -f foo.bar

* Opening file /var/log/maxscale/maxscale1.log failed due 13, Permission denied.

Error : opening logfile /var/log/maxscale/maxscale1.log failed.

Error : opening log file /var/log/maxscale/maxscale1.log failed. Exiting MaxScale

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* Error : Initializing log manager failed.

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* Error : Failed to expand config file name to complete path. Error : No such file or directory 

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2016-07-10 10:29:59   error  : Error : Failed to expand config file name to complete path. Error : No such file or directory

wfong@willcn:~$ maxscale -f /home/wfong/maxscale.cnf 

wfong@willcn:~$ ps aux|grep maxscale

wfong    30771  2.0  0.6 564864 54656 ?        Ssl  10:32   0:00 maxscale -f /home/wfong/maxscale.cnf

wfong    30781  0.0  0.0  15968   948 pts/19   S+   10:32   0:00 grep --color=auto maxscale

wfong@willcn:~$ maxscale --version

MaxScale 1.4.3

wfong@willcn:~$