I wonder if you can help.
I am running the following versions:
OS: SMP Debian 3.2.81-1 x86_64
uWSGI: uWSGI 2.0.11.2
I installed uWSGI manually, as I want to use a specific version. Using the following commands: -
apt-get install build-essential psmisc python-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev python-setuptools
cd /opt/
wget http://projects.unbit.it/downloads/uwsgi-2.0.11.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf uwsgi-2.0.11.2.tar.gz
mv uwsgi-2.0.11.2/ uwsgi/
cd uwsgi/
python setup.py install
I am trying to replicate the setup on another server that the project is already working on in a live environment (I am essentially setting up a test server environment).
The original server has uWSGI running on boot. To figure out how this is happening, I used
htops
I've been able to identify that uWSGI is running on the existing server with a set of command line switches. I've managed to track down the script that initialises uWSGI with these switches in the init.d folder.
I copied this script to my test server, and ran it using
service script.sh start
After various troubleshooting, mainly involving permissions on socket folders etc, now when I run this script it starts, and if I run htop I can see uWSGI is running and it has the exact same command switches I need.
I thought simply putting the script in init.d and giving it execute permission
chmod +x script.sh
Would be enough so that it starts when the server is switched on... but this appears to not be the case. Because when I issue
reboot
At the terminal, the terminal reboots but when I go into htops, and check for the uWSGI process it is not running.
If however directly after reboot I issue the following command
service script.sh start
The service starts just fine, and I can once again see it in htops.
Research online lead me to the suggestion that I should try to set the script to run automatically using chkconfig. I installed chkconfig using
apt-get chkconfig
and then ran the following command
chkconfig --list
I noticed that all the runtime levels where set to off for the script I am trying to get to execute on boot.
I ran the following command
chkconfig /etc/init.d/script.sh on
And now when I check the script runtime switches with chkconfig, it shows me the following output for my script:
script.sh 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
However when I reboot the uWSGI process is still not starting.
Yet if I simply type
service script.sh start
At the terminal the service runs ok, and uWSGI runs fine.
How can I set the script to run when the server restarts?
Edit:
Further research on the live server that is working fine, has determined that it does not appear to be using systemd to launch uWSGI on startup. I logged into the live server and while there is a
/etc/systemd
folder, it has just one folder in it system and no files. The system folder has the following files in it:
multi-user.target.wants sockets.target.wants syslog.service
So there does not appear to be anything uWSGI related in here.
Also what is making me think this is likely something to do with the
/etc/init.d
folder, is that when I run htop and examine the running services (or daemons) not quite sure of the correct terminology in linux. uWSGI is showing in here as running with a signature of command line switches, and the script I have found in /etc/init.d has this exact uWSGI command and same signature of switches, so I'm fairly convinced this is the part of the system that is starting the uWSGI daemon , I just can't figure out what I need to do , to get it to run apart from copying the same file to /etc/init.d on the new server and giving it execute permission.
The OS of the live server is :
SMP Debian 3.2.73-2+deb7u1 x86_64
and the OS I am running on the new server is
SMP Debian 3.2.81-1 x86_64
So they seem fairly similiar? Although I'm not sure how significant the 8 incremements in the least significant digits in the version number is.
On the new server there is no /etc/systemd folder , and on the live server there is a /etc/systemd as explained above. So it does appear to have been installed seperately to the main OS install (as I have a later version of Debian and it wasn't installed on my system by default) - so perhaps there is something related to systemd that is causing the script to start on the live server, but I'm not too sure.
Jessie
In the recent Debian (Jessie) the initv scripts do not work the way they did. And given your kernel version you are not running a Debian that uses initv scripts. The current Debian uses systemd and scripts in /etc/rc.d are run by compatibility features of systemd (the service command is now a systemd command that tries to behave like the old initv command).
You have two options:
Add a line calling the script from /etc/rc.local:
/etc/rc.d/script.sh
This is a rather dirty fix, since it depends on another compatibility feature of systemd. Also, the location of the script does not matter anymore.
Write a full systemd service for uwsgi (this is what I do, and what is recommended by the uwsgi documentation). You would need to create a file called /etc/systemd/system/uwsgi.service with a content similar to:
[Unit]
Description=uwsgi emperor
After=rsyslog.service
[Service]
PIDFile=/run/uwsgi-emperor.pid
ExecStart=/bin/uwsgi --ini /etc/uwsgi/emperor.ini
ExecReload=/bin/uwsgi --reload /run/uwsgi-emperor.pid
ExecStop=/bin/uwsgi --stop /run/uwsgi-emperor.pid
Restart=always
KillSignal=SIGQUIT
Type=notify
StandardError=syslog
NotifyAccess=all
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
I use the emperor mode (which is also the mode recommended by uwsgi for use with systemd), although it is possible to hack it to run a single process uwsgi (see further reading below).
You will also need to enable the service to be used by the multi-user.target, which will run at boot. You need to perform this as root:
systemctl enable uwsgi.service
And uwsgi will start with the next boot (it will not start straight away, to make it start you need systemctl start uwsgi.service).
Further reading:
The Arch linux wiki about systemd is very thorough
The Debian wiki on systemd is good, but outdated in some places (notably, it tells you that you need to install it which is not the case in Jessie)
Weezy
You're mixing things up a little there: chkconfig is a script of the RedHat family of OSes. Making it work for Debian was not easy in the past, and I do not believe it is easy to do so now.
Weezy still uses the initv rc.d folders alright, for each runlevel one rc.d folder:
/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/
/etc/rc.d/rc1.d/
/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/
/etc/rc.d/rc4.d/
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/
/etc/rc.d/rc6.d/
You can check the runlevel you are in with the (appropriately named) runlevel command. Then you need to check whether there is a softlink to the script in the correct /etc/rc.d/rc*.d folder. If there is no softlink to the script you need to add it with something of the lines:
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/script.dh /etc/rc.d/rc$(runlevel | cut -d ' ' -f 2).d/script.sh
And that is almost all about how initv scripts work. If you are going into runlevel 2 when the machine boots (I believe that's the default on Debian), what init performs is simply service <script> start for every file in /etc/rc.d/rc2.d.
Related
I want my raspberry to execute 2 commands when he starts but i don't know how to setup it
the commands are
cd /var/www/restaurant && php -S 10.0.0.1:8000 -t public
i have tried to edit /etc/rc.local and add my command but it doesn't work
The "official" way to run a program at boot time on systemd-based Raspbian systems (and, in fact, most modern Linux distributions) is to create a systemd unit file. There are specific instructions for Raspbian here:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/systemd.md
The entry After=network.target is particular relevant in this case, because I imagine your program will need network interfaces to be up.
rc.local is a hold-over from the SysV init days, and I've heard reports of it not working reliably in Raspbian. Creating a systemd unit file provides a simple way to test the service using systemctl without actually having to reboot. If it fails on boot, you'll probably need to use journalctl to see the error messages.
Question: How can I confirm whether or not my "Dedicated Server" is running properly?
Background: I am working to get a 'Dedicated CoreNLP Server' running on a stand-alone Linux system. This system is a laptop running CentOS 7. This OS was chosen because the directions for a Dedicated CoreNLP Server specifically state that they apply to CentOS.
I have followed the directions for the Dedicated CoreNLP Server step-by-step (outlined below):
Downloaded CoreNLP 3.7.0 from the Stanford CoreNLP website (not GitHub) and placed/extracted it into the /opt/corenlp folder.
Installed authbind and created a user called 'nlp' with super user privileges and bind it to port 80
sudo mkdir -p /etc/authbind/byport/
sudo touch /etc/authbind/byport/80
sudo chown nlp:nlp /etc/authbind/byport/80
sudo chmod 600 /etc/authbind/byport/80
Copy the startup script from the source jar at path edu/stanford/nlp/pipeline/demo/corenlp to /etc/init.d/corenlp
Give executable permissions to the startup script: sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/corenlp
Link the script to /etc/rc.d/: ln -s /etc/init.d/corenlp /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S75corenlp
Completing these steps is supposed to allow me to run the command sudo service corenlp start in order to run the dedicated server. When I run this command in the terminal I get the output "CoreNLP server started" which IS consistent with the the start up script "corenlp". I then run the start command again and get this same response, which is NOT consistent with the start up script. From what I can tell, if the server is actually running and I try to start it again I should get the message "CoreNLP server is already running!" This leads me to believe that my server is not actually functioning as it is intended to.
Is this command properly starting the server? How can I tell?
Since the "proper" command was not functioning as I thought it should, I used the command sudo systemctl *start* corenlp.service and checked the service's status with sudo systemctl *status* corenlp.service. I am not sure if this is an appropriate way in which to start and stop a 'Dedicated CoreNLP Server' but I can control the service. I just do not know if I am actually starting and stopping my dedicated server.
Can I use systemctl command to operate my Dedicated CoreNLP Server?
Please read the comments below the originally posted question. This was the back and forth between #GaborAngeli and myself which lead my question/problem being solved.
The two critical steps I took in order to get my instantiation of the CoreNLP server running locally on my machine after following all the directions on how to setup a dedicated server, which are outlined on Stanford CoreNLP's webpage, are as follows:
Made two modifications to the "corenlp" start-up script. (1) added sudo to the beginning because the user "nlp" needs permissions to certain files on the system (2) changed the first folder path from /usr/local/bin/authbind to /usr/bin/authbind. authbind installation must've changed since the start up script was written.
nohup su "$SERVER_USER" -c "sudo /usr/bin/authbind --deep java -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.io.tmpdir_"$CORENLP_DIR" -cp "$CLASSPATH" -mx15g edu.stanford.nlp.pipeline.StanfordCoreNLPServer -port 80"
If you were to attempt to start the server with the change above you would not successfully run server because sudo usage requires a password input. In order to allow sudo privileges without a required password entry you need to edit the sudoers file (I did this under the root user b/c you need permissions to change or even view this document). my sudoers file was located in /etc. There is a part that says ## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands and below that is a section that says ##Same thing without a password. You just need to remove the comment mark (#) form in front of the next line which says %wheel ALL+(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL. Save this file. BE CAREFUL IN EDITING THIS FILE AS IT MAY CAUSE SERIOUS ISSUES. MAKE ONLY THE NECESSARY CHANGE OUTLINED ABOVE
Those two steps allowed me to successfully run my dedicated server. My system runs on CentOS 7.
HELPFUL TIP: From my discussion with #GaborAngeli I learned that within the 'corenlp' folder (/opt/corenlp if you followed the directions correctly) you can open the stderr.log file to help you in trouble shooting your server. This outputs what you would see if you were to run the server in the command window. If there is an error it is output here too, which is extremely helpful.
NOTE: I am running Red Hat 6.7
I have a service that is configured with the Linux init system to start a process as a service when the machine boots. This was done by doing this one-time configuration from the command line:
ln -snf /home/me/bin/my_service /etc/init.d/my_service
chkconfig --add my_service
chkconfig --level 235 my_service on
When the OS reboots, the service starts as expected.
I ALSO need the service to be restarted if the service (my_service) crashes. From what I've read, all I need to do is add an entry to /etc/inittab that looks like this:
mysvc:235:respawn:/home/me/bin/my_service_starter
Where my_service_starter looks like:
#!/bin/bash
/home/me/bin/my_service start
My understanding is that when the init system detects that my_service is not running, it will attempt to restart it by running "my_service_starter".
However this does not seem to be working.
I need to understand how to tell the Linux init system to restart my service when the service crashes.
Given an entry like:
mysvc:235:respawn:/home/me/bin/my_service_starter
Then inittab will:
call /home/me/bin/my_service_starter
which will call /home/me/bin/my_service start
...and then exit, so init will thing your service has failed
so init will call /home/me/bin/my_service_starter again
...and so forth, which will result in init deciding that your script is respawning too fast, after which it will ignore it completely.
A process started by inittab is not expected to exit. If you really want to use inittab to maintain your service, you could remove /etc/init.d/my_service, and then in /etc/inittab you would have something like:
mysvc:235:respawn:/home/me/bin/my_service
And you would need to ensure that my_service runs in the foreground (some programs automatically daemonize by default, although these will often have some sort of --run-in-foreground flag).
If you upgrade to CentOS 7 or something else with systemd, this all becomes easier.
You can also investigate "third-party" process supervisors like "supervisord" or "runit" that you could use for process monitoring/restarting on CentOS 6.
Update
As mangotang points out, and I forgot, RHEL 6 actually shipped with upstart, even though it used almost exclusively SysV-style init scripts. So a better solution would be to create an upstart service instead. There are some reasonable getting-started docs here.
On RHEL 6.X, at top of the /etc/inittab file it says:
# inittab is only used by upstart for the default runlevel.
#
# ADDING OTHER CONFIGURATION HERE WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON YOUR SYSTEM
RHEL 6.X uses Upstart instead of the System V init system. See the man pages for initctl(8) and initctl(5), or ask Google about Upstart.
I got a VPS that runs a django app w/ gunicorn & nginx.
right now im starting the whole thing by runnig:
cd /srv/OmegaManager
gunicorn -c /srv/gunicorn_config.py OmegaManager.wsgi
sudo service nginx start
How can i make a script that start those services that way on system startup?
I'm pretty new to linux, so please be well explained :)
OS: Ubuntu 14.04
I suppose simplest solution for novice user (must work without problems) is put these commands to file /etc/rc.local (it must be in your system by default). This file executed during startup in most linux systems.
Place commands before last line with exit 0.
Make sure /etc/rc.local is executable (again, it must be OK by default).
I am trying to start GUI application with upstart script on CentOS. I have test script located /etc/init/ folder.
start on desktop-session-start
stop on desktop-shutdown
respawn
script
export DISPLAY=:0
sleep 5
exec /.1/Projects/UpstartTest/start.sh &
end script
start.sh scripts is running binary files for GUI application.
After reboot my computer. When I typed:
[root#mg-CentOS ~]# initctl status test
test stop/waiting
So my upstart is not runnig. When i type
initctl start test
manually it works fine without any problem.
How can I run this upstart script after user login (desktop started) ? I am trying to find detailed documents for CentOS for upstart but there is no.
For this purpose, you can use the update-rc tool, which is builtin on linux distributions. It basically creates a symbolic link for the script you want to be executed at startup, or some other OS states, on the folder rc.X, where X is the number of the folder that determines a state that you want.
You may want to have a look at this answer: Update-rc.d custom script running too late, and also runs at shutdown
More information about can be found here:
http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/systems-management/8116-an-introduction-to-services-runlevels-and-rcd-scripts
Detailed information about the CentOS booting process can be found here: https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-boot-init-shutdown-process.html;
the rc is being explained at this document as well.