Re: [gentoo-dev] java and start-stop-daemon [repost]

["paul kölle" <paul@subsignal.org>]

Roy Marples wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 August 2006 08:42, paul kölle wrote:
[ snipp ]
>> Starting /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.08/bin/java...
>> Detatching to start /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.08/bin/java...done.
>>  [ ok ]
>>
>> -> app not running
>>
>> I'm mostly interested in changing the user at startup and pid file
>> handling. If start-stop-daemon won't work I'd need to add sudo to
>> RDEPEND and grab the PID from "ps U" or similar... I'd prefer doing it
>> in a more "standard" way though.
> 
> What is /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.08/bin/java ? Does it change it's process name at 
> all? Maybe you need to use the --name option.
Hmm, I think it is the java "interpreter" and it doesn't seem to change
its name. "cat /proc/<pid>/stat shows "java" as the process name, so
--name would be the same for all running java apps.

[...poking around..]
Ok, fixed ;) Apparently s-s-d doesn't like linebreaks (not even escaped)
between "--startas $command", and "-- $args".

> 
> I ask as for init scripts we have a bash wrapper around s-s-d that is a lot 
> more strict than s-s-d itself. For example it should only be used for 
> daemons - ie what you call is expected to be a daemon. Thus it is useless for 
> shell scripts that call daemons. See the courier-imap fiasco for details on 
> this.
I'm pretty sure I do not understand the details here ;) I just thought
about s-s-d as something you can use as a wrapper for backgrounding and
pid stuff...

thanks again,
 Paul


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