Unable to start daemon because of start-stop-daemon

[genielog]

Hello,

Moving foward in the installation of OX, i'm stoped by the daemon statinr script which use the SysVInit prg 'start-stop-daeaon' with an option that is not recognized by my installed version of start-stop-daemon.

I'm running a SuSE 10.1 Linux with a start-stop-daemon v. 0.3.1 which comes from with my SysVInit package 2.86.47.

I'm not able to find a more recent package of SysVInit and neither a stand alone package for the latest start-stop-daemon.

Is there any way to upgrade my start-stop-dameon prgm with the appropriate version for start OX or on the other hand a turn arround fix for the start script /opt/open-xchange/etc/admindaemon/oxfunctions.sh ?

[Ben Pahne]

but

& sh /etc/init.d/openexchange-admindaemon

works?
(maybe the file name a bit different)

[genielog]

The script failed because of one of the argument (--background). It happens that another argument is not recongnized : --make-pidfile

/etc/init.d/open-xchange-admin start
Starting Open-Xchange Admin Daemon: start-stop-daemon: unrecognized option `--background'
Try `start-stop-daemon --help' for more information.

Then running start-stop-daemon --help gives me :

start-stop-daemon for Debian Linux - small and fast C version written by
Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>, public domain.
version 0.3.1, 1996-07-19

Usage:
start-stop-daemon -S|--start options ... -- arguments ...
start-stop-daemon -K|--stop options ...
start-stop-daemon -H|--help
start-stop-daemon -V|--version

Options (at least one of --exec|--pidfile|--user is required):
-x|--exec <executable> program to start/check if it is running
-p|--pidfile <pid-file> pid file to check
-u|--user <username>|<uid> stop this user's processes
-n|--name <process-name> start/stop processes with this name
-s|--signal <signal> signal to send (default 15)
-t|--test test mode, don't do anything
-o|--oknodo exit status 0 (not 1) if nothing done
-q|--quiet | -v, --verbose

Exit status: 0 = done 1 = nothing done (=> 0 if --oknodo) 2 = trouble

[Marcus Klein]

Check start-stop-daemon

You are working with debian. That's fine. We have to check where your start-stop-daemon comes from:

debian:~# whereis start-stop-daemon
start-stop-daemon: /sbin/start-stop-daemon /usr/share/man/man8/start-stop-daemon.8.gz

debian:~# dpkg -S /sbin/start-stop-daemon
dpkg: /sbin/start-stop-daemon

debian:~# dpkg --status dpkg | grep Version
Version: 1.13.24

"whereis" gives you where the executable start-stop-daemon is located and "dpkg -S" on the executable gives you which package installes start-stop-daemon and then we check the version of this package. Please provide this output on your debian system.

Which version of debian do you use? Stable, Testing, Sarge, Etch?

Regards...

[genielog]

My system don't use start-stop-daemon (it's SuSE, not Debian) even if an old version exist in my /sbin directory.

With SuSE, the dameons are started with startproc in the /etc/rc.d directories.

I tried to convert the start-proc-dameon call into a startproc call in the ox_start_daemon() function but I can't find the name of the daemon to start in the call to start-proc-dameon there ???

[Carsten Hoeger]

Hello,

Moving foward in the installation of OX, i'm stoped by the daemon statinr script which use the SysVInit prg 'start-stop-daeaon' with an option that is not recognized by my installed version of start-stop-daemon.

I'm running a SuSE 10.1 Linux with a start-stop-daemon v. 0.3.1 which comes from with my SysVInit package 2.86.47.
?

The provided init scripts currently only work on Debian.
Porting to other systems like SUSE should not be very hard.
You can use /etc/init.d/skeleton and the Debian script as template to build your own one.

[tronn]

start-stop-daemon on centos

I didnt get to start the admin damon on my centos box cause of the start-stop-daemon, this is how I did it on my centos box

I downloaded this tar archive

http://developer.axis.com/download/distribution/apps-sys-utils-start-stop-daemon-IR1_9_18-1.tar.gz

unpacked it
tar zxvf apps-sys-utils-start-stop-daemon-IR1_9_18-1.tar.gz
cd apps/sys-utils/start-stop-daemon-IR1_9_18-1/

gcc start-stop-daemon.c -o start-stop-daemon

Then I copied the newly created start-stop-daemon binary to /usr/sbin/
Then I was able to start the daemon with the script

/etc/init.d/open-xchange-admin start

Hope this helps others non debian / ubuntu users

Tronn

[jleg]

some more start-stop-daemon issues

The provided init scripts currently only work on Debian.

Hm, do they? From my knowledge, "start-stop-daemon" does not understand
'--group'

Instead, '--chuid user:group' (=> '--chuid open-xchangepen-xchange') has to be used. Imo.

Another bummer - at least on SuSEs non-root is not allowed to create a pid in /var/run - so this fails. A 'more compatible' workaround would be to create a /var/run/openexchange or similar, owned by "open-xchangepen-xchange", created during installation...

Another "feature request" for the start script: Probably a number of people will have several JSEs installed - often with (some older) version usually "found" by your 'which java' in ox_set_JAVA_BIN.
Wouldn't it be more flexible (and less hardcoding) to use something like "$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"?
Afaik there even is some "standard" named "JAVA_BINDIR"...


Jan

[Carsten Hoeger]

Hm, do they? From my knowledge, "start-stop-daemon" does not understand
'--group'

Instead, '--chuid user:group' (=> '--chuid open-xchangepen-xchange') has to be used. Imo.


Jan

Well, exactly those scripts are already in use on Sarge and Ubuntu Server 6.06 LTS.