Re: [Fab-user] Problem with start-stop-daemon

[Fernando Takai]

If i try on a normal shell, it returns immediately.

Going to try adding the --background flag today.

On Jan 24, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Christian Vest Hansen wrote:

> I would guess that your command isn't "daemonizing".
> 
> If you SSH to the server and run the command `sudo start-stop-daemon
> --start --quiet --pidfile > /var/run/myapp.pid --exec
> /usr/local/sbin/daemon.py` does it daemonize and give you a prompt
> back immediately? Otherwise try adding a --background argument to the
> start-stop-daemon command.
> 
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Fernando Takai
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I'm using fabric to deploy my app on a debian server.
>> To do it, i need to:
>> 
>> 1 - stop the app
>> 2 - upload the tar.bz2
>> 3 - extract the new tar file
>> 4 - start the app.
>> 
>> Every step is working, except the last one. When i try to start the
>> app via /etc/init.d/myapp start, fabric just stops.
>> I tracked down the problem to the start-stop-daemon tool.
>> 
>> If i try this task:
>> 
>> def start():
>>    sudo("start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile
>> /var/run/myapp.pid --exec /usr/local/sbin/daemon.py")
>> 
>> It just hangs.
>> 
>> Anyone knows a workaround?
>> 
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> 
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