[gentoo-user] Init script strangeness.

[gentoo-user] Init script strangeness.

[Anthony Roy]

Hi all,

I have written a simple init script for controlling a wiki, and have
encountered a strange effect:

from the init.d directory, I can start and stop my app just fine with
wiki start and wiki stop resp. However, the stop script complains that
the script has not been started!

rc-status does not list my script, however wiki status shows it as started!

The script is as follows:
=====================
# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

depend() {
        need net
        after domainname
}

start() {
        ebegin "Starting Wiki"
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --pidfile
/var/run/antwiki.pid --make-pidfile --exec /srv/wiki/wiki-start
        eend $?
}

stop() {
        ebegin "Stopping Wiki"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/antwiki.pid --name wiki
        wget http://localhost:1234/?shutdown > /dev/null
        eend $?
}
==========================

Any ideas?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Init script strangeness.

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:11:09 +0000, Anthony Roy wrote:

> I have written a simple init script for controlling a wiki, and have
> encountered a strange effect:

You don't appear to have "#!/sbin/runscript" on the first line.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Init script strangeness.

[Anthony Roy]

Thanks for the quick reply, but #!/sbin/runscript is the first line -
it must have scrolled just off of the screen when I copied the text
(sorry!).

> You don't appear to have "#!/sbin/runscript" on the first line.

Any other ideas.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Init script strangeness.

[Richard Fish]

On 11/21/05, Anthony Roy <antroy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply, but #!/sbin/runscript is the first line -
> it must have scrolled just off of the screen when I copied the text
> (sorry!).

There are 2 conditions required for the start-stop-daemon to
successfully stop the service:

1. A process with the given process id must exist in the system
2. Since you are giving the "--name wiki" option, the process name in
/proc/<pid>/stat must be "wiki".

Can you verify that both of those conditions are true?

# cat /proc/`cat /var/run/antwiki.pid`/stat

-Richard


>
> > You don't appear to have "#!/sbin/runscript" on the first line.
>
> Any other ideas.
>
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