[Setup] /etc/init.d control script for Linux/Ubuntu?

[Raphael Ritz]

On 10/3/11 8:09 AM, ajung wrote:
> It has always been sufficient to link e.g. the bin/zopectl or bin/zeoctl
> script to /etc/init.d
> in order make the startup/shutdown work properly. My preferred startup
> method however is using the @reboot directive through cron.
>

and in addition to that: many of us - including myself - use supervisor
http://supervisord.org/  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/supervisor
for job control of clusters. In that case you put

/path/to/your/supervisord

in init.d (or cron tab). You see, as so often there is more than one
way to do certain things and we don't impose a specific one here.

As you say, this is a critical admin task where people want
to follow what they are comfortable with. Not what some of us
think should be followed.

And last but not least: Plone tries hard to work across all
major platforms while /etc/init.d is Unix/Linux specific.

Raphael


> -aj
>
>
> hydrostarr2 wrote:
>>
>> Why does Plone not come with a native /etc/init.d control script for
>> Linux/Ubuntu?  And how can I trust one that just gets pulled from a random
>> post like the ones below (which were found at top of "/etc/init.d Plone"
>> google search)?  Suggestions?
>>
>> http://plone.org/documentation/kb/startup-script-for-debian/tutorial-all-pages
>> http://plone.org/documentation/kb/simple-etc-rc-d-init-d-script-for-zeocluster
>> http://plone.org/documentation/kb/startup-script-for-debian/the-script-it-self
>> (seems like latest/most-pertinent)
>>
>> As server admins are response for coding our own
>> startup/shutdown/status/control script?  Been running zeocluster/bin/*.sh
>> scripts "by hand" for a while now. NOT running zopectl but rather
>> "restartclients.sh", "restartclusher.sh", "shutdowncluster.sh", etc.
>>
>> An aside- this is just another thing that other webserver apps just "make
>> easy" and is a struggle in Plone.  :-/ There seems to be no authoritative
>> source for how to address this fundamental issue for install.  Also, the
>> 'plonectl' script (from 4.1, below) looks nothing like the above scripts,
>> hence am hesitant to simply link it in to /etc/init.d and startup/shudown
>> control.
>>
>>
>>
>
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