Re: [Webware-discuss] Problem restarting app server - Webware 0.9 RedHat start script

[Christoph Z. <ci...@on...>]

Michael Trisko wrote:
 > With Webware 0.8.1 we've been using /var/run/$APP_NAME.pid to store
 > the pid files, so I decided to continue with that convention with 0.9.
 > However, when I do a restart, it works the first time but fails after
 > that.  The pidfile in the /var/run location is not there ...

So you changed the PID_FILE variable in the start script to point to 
/var/run instead of the working dir, right?

Note that there are two starting modes now, controlled by the variable 
LAUNCH_AS_WEBWARE. If the variable is set (by default), then the start 
script switches over to the Webware user even before the log file is 
written, and that user may not have the right to write to /var/run. If 
you want to create logfiles in /var/run, you need to unset the variable 
LAUNCH_AS_WEBWARE as well. In you do this, the logfile is written before 
switching over to the Webware user, and everything should be fine.

Also, check that you have set up your Webware user appropriately. It 
should usually be a user with low priviledges and owns the working dir 
(by default, the Webware user will be the owner of the AppServer script 
in your working directory).

-- Christoph