Friends,
I've got an interesting issue with a few catalyst apps. I have a server
running two apps under apache with FastCGI. I wrote an init script to
start and stop the app server, it's attached below. I started having
issues with the init script once I began running multiple apps. The
init scripts ( using the standard rc.d/functions library ) identify the
PID of the FastCGI process via it's process name, which is
"perl-fcgi-pm". Because of this, when I issue a stop or restart command
to the catalyst server via the init script, it may operate on the wrong
process.
I dug into trying to change the running process name as seen by ps, but
this seems to be a fully static value defined by FCGI::ProcManager with
no option to override it (?).
I tried to get the init script able to properly identify the processes (
it seems to use the PID files which contain the correct PID for each
process ) but it still might operate on the incorrect PID.
I've seen it mentioned on the list to use daemon tools with PAR (
http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2006/4 ) but that uses the
built-in myapp_server.pl, running it's own web server, and I much prefer
the apache/fastcgi approach, most especially because it leaves the work
of serving static content to apache instead of the heavier application
process.
Does anybody have a better init script than the one below for handling
the fastcgi processes? I'm probably missing something obvious X.X
Kind Regards,
/Mitchell Jackson
OnSite Mobile
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#!/bin/bash
#
# qualify manage qualify fastcgi server
#
# chkconfig: - 89 16
# description: Manage starting, stopping and restarting the \
# catalyst fastcgi application
# processname: qualify
# pidfile: /var/run/qualify_fastcgi.pid
# Source function library
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Paths
fastcgi=/var/www/qualify.x.com/qualify/script/qualify_fastcgi.pl
socket=/tmp/qualify.socket
prog=perl-fcgi-pm
pidfile=${PIDFILE-/tmp/qualify_fastcgi.pid}
lockfile=${LOCKFILE-/var/lock/qualify_fastcgi}
RETVAL=0
userid=qualify.x.com
parms=$"-l $socket -n 5 -p $pidfile -d"
start() {
echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
daemon --user $userid --pidfile $pidfile $fastcgi $parms
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch ${lockfile}
return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
killproc -p $pidfile -d 10 $prog
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f ${lockfile} ${pidfile}
}
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
status -p $pidfile $prog
RETVAL=$?
;;
restart)
stop
start
;;
condrestart)
if [ -f ${pidfile} ] ; then
stop
start
fi
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $prog {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status|help}"
exit 1
esac
exit $RETVAL
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