Re: [VuFind-Tech] Starting / Stopping VuFind on Sever Start Up / Shutdown

[Joe A. <jo...@bo...>]

What OS/version are you on?  The redhat/centos convention for service
startup including running as a different user is via the *daemon* utility.
 There is a debian/ubuntu version also (start-stop-daemon).

Of course, you will have to change any applicable root-permissioned files
to the appropriate user before such a command will run successfully.  But
daemon is more reliable and coherent than su/sudo for this purpose.

The form is like:

daemon --user=myuser --pidfile=/path/to/my.pid my_command


Defined in */etc/init.d/functions*

--joe


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Osullivan L. <l.o...@sw...>
wrote:

> Hi Demian,
>
> Thanks for this - I'll give it a go. The standard script on the VuFind
> Wiki works fine - it seems that attempting to start VuFind as a
> different user to root causes the problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luke
>
> On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 12:57 +0000, Demian Katz wrote:
> > Those /dev/tty problems may be interfering. I think you can solve
> > these by setting the JETTY_CONSOLE variable… e.g.:
> >
> >
> >
> > export JETTY_CONSOLE=/dev/null
> >
> >
> >
> > - Demian
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Osullivan L. [mailto:l.o...@sw...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:35 AM
> > To: vuf...@li...
> > Subject: [VuFind-Tech] Starting / Stopping VuFind on Sever Start Up /
> > Shutdown
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I'm having a few problems with the automated start up and shutdown of
> > VuFind on Ubuntu and was hoping someone may be able to spot any
> > problems with my init script.
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > ### BEGIN INIT INFO
> > # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
> > # Default-Stop: 0 1 6
> > # Description: VuFind init script
> > ### END INIT INFO
> > U=`id -nu`
> >
> > if  [ $U != "root" ]; then
> >        echo "Script must be run from root. You are '$U'"
> >     exit 1
> > fi
> >
> > su -l cronfa -c "cd /usr/local/cronfa;./vufind.sh $*
> > >> /var/log/cronfa/rc.log 2>&1"
> >
> > The init script works in that it calls start and stop routines are
> > called and outputted to the rc.log file:
> >
> > Shutting down VuFind ...
> > ./vufind.sh: 450: ./vufind.sh: cannot create /dev/tty: No such device
> > or address
> > Starting VuFind ...
> > ./vufind.sh: 436: ./vufind.sh: cannot create /dev/tty: No such device
> > or address
> > /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/bin/java -server -d64 -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m
> > -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:+AggressiveOpts
> > -XX:NewRatio=5 -Xloggc:/var/log/cronfa/gc.log
> > -Dsolr.solr.home=/usr/local/cronfa/solr
> > -Djetty.logs=/usr/local/cronfa/solr/jetty/logs
> > -Djetty.home=/usr/local/cronfa/solr/jetty
> > -jar /usr/local/cronfa/solr/jetty/start.jar
>  /usr/local/cronfa/solr/jetty/etc/jetty.xml
> > VuFind running pid=928
> > sh: 1: cannot create /dev/tty: No such device or address
> >
> > However, when I restart the server, the Java process isn't actually
> > running. I think it may being called to early / late because vufind.sh
> > complains about /dev/tty not being available. At first, I thought the
> > pid file wasn't being removed but it seems that although the script is
> > reporting VuFind is running, sudo ps -e | grep "java" reveals that a
> > java instance hasn't been started.
> >
> > Any help would be gratefully received!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Luke
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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