On Tuesday, January 10, 2017, Jonathan Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote:
> Last I checked, cron doesn't load the same, full environment you see when
> you log in. Also, why put Cassandra on a cron?
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:47 PM Bhuvan Rawal <bhu1ra...@gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bhu1ra...@gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ajay,
>>
>> Have you had a look at cron logs? - mine is in path /var/log/cron
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Ajay Garg <ajaygargn...@gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ajaygargn...@gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All.
>>>
>>> Facing a very weird issue, wherein the command
>>>
>>> */etc/init.d/cassandra start*
>>>
>>> causes cassandra to start when the command is run from command-line.
>>>
>>>
>>> However, if I put the above as a cron job
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ** * * * * /etc/init.d/cassandra start*
>>> cassandra never starts.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have checked, and "cron" service is running.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas what might be wrong?
>>> I am pasting the cassandra script for brevity.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>> Ajay
>>>
>>>
>>> ############################################################
>>> ########################################
>>> #! /bin/sh
>>> ### BEGIN INIT INFO
>>> # Provides: cassandra
>>> # Required-Start: $remote_fs $network $named $time
>>> # Required-Stop: $remote_fs $network $named $time
>>> # Should-Start: ntp mdadm
>>> # Should-Stop: ntp mdadm
>>> # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
>>> # Default-Stop: 0 1 6
>>> # Short-Description: distributed storage system for structured data
>>> # Description: Cassandra is a distributed (peer-to-peer) system for
>>> # the management and storage of structured data.
>>> ### END INIT INFO
>>>
>>> # Author: Eric Evans <eev...@racklabs.com
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','eev...@racklabs.com');>>
>>>
>>> DESC="Cassandra"
>>> NAME=cassandra
>>> PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME/$NAME.pid
>>> SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
>>> CONFDIR=/etc/cassandra
>>> WAIT_FOR_START=10
>>> CASSANDRA_HOME=/usr/share/cassandra
>>> FD_LIMIT=100000
>>>
>>> [ -e /usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra.jar ] || exit 0
>>> [ -e /etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml ] || exit 0
>>> [ -e /etc/cassandra/cassandra-env.sh ] || exit 0
>>>
>>> # Read configuration variable file if it is present
>>> [ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME
>>>
>>> # Read Cassandra environment file.
>>> . /etc/cassandra/cassandra-env.sh
>>>
>>> if [ -z "$JVM_OPTS" ]; then
>>> echo "Initialization failed; \$JVM_OPTS not set!" >&2
>>> exit 3
>>> fi
>>>
>>> export JVM_OPTS
>>>
>>> # Export JAVA_HOME, if set.
>>> [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] && export JAVA_HOME
>>>
>>> # Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
>>> . /lib/init/vars.sh
>>>
>>> # Define LSB log_* functions.
>>> # Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
>>> . /lib/lsb/init-functions
>>>
>>> #
>>> # Function that returns 0 if process is running, or nonzero if not.
>>> #
>>> # The nonzero value is 3 if the process is simply not running, and 1 if
>>> the
>>> # process is not running but the pidfile exists (to match the exit codes
>>> for
>>> # the "status" command; see LSB core spec 3.1, section 20.2)
>>> #
>>> CMD_PATT="cassandra.+CassandraDaemon"
>>> is_running()
>>> {
>>> if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
>>> pid=`cat $PIDFILE`
>>> grep -Eq "$CMD_PATT" "/proc/$pid/cmdline" 2>/dev/null && return 0
>>> return 1
>>> fi
>>> return 3
>>> }
>>> #
>>> # Function that starts the daemon/service
>>> #
>>> do_start()
>>> {
>>> # Return
>>> # 0 if daemon has been started
>>> # 1 if daemon was already running
>>> # 2 if daemon could not be started
>>>
>>> ulimit -l unlimited
>>> ulimit -n "$FD_LIMIT"
>>>
>>> cassandra_home=`getent passwd cassandra | awk -F ':' '{ print $6; }'`
>>> heap_dump_f="$cassandra_home/java_`date +%s`.hprof"
>>> error_log_f="$cassandra_home/hs_err_`date +%s`.log"
>>>
>>> [ -e `dirname "$PIDFILE"` ] || \
>>> install -d -ocassandra -gcassandra -m755 `dirname $PIDFILE`
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> start-stop-daemon -S -c cassandra -a /usr/sbin/cassandra -q -p
>>> "$PIDFILE" -t >/dev/null || return 1
>>>
>>> start-stop-daemon -S -c cassandra -a /usr/sbin/cassandra -b -p
>>> "$PIDFILE" -- \
>>> -p "$PIDFILE" -H "$heap_dump_f" -E "$error_log_f" >/dev/null ||
>>> return 2
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> #
>>> # Function that stops the daemon/service
>>> #
>>> do_stop()
>>> {
>>> # Return
>>> # 0 if daemon has been stopped
>>> # 1 if daemon was already stopped
>>> # 2 if daemon could not be stopped
>>> # other if a failure occurred
>>> start-stop-daemon -K -p "$PIDFILE" -R TERM/30/KILL/5 >/dev/null
>>> RET=$?
>>> rm -f "$PIDFILE"
>>> return $RET
>>> }
>>>
>>> case "$1" in
>>> start)
>>> [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
>>> do_start
>>> case "$?" in
>>> 0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
>>> 2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
>>> esac
>>> ;;
>>> stop)
>>> [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
>>> do_stop
>>> case "$?" in
>>> 0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
>>> 2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
>>> esac
>>> ;;
>>> restart|force-reload)
>>> log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
>>> do_stop
>>> case "$?" in
>>> 0|1)
>>> do_start
>>> case "$?" in
>>> 0|1)
>>> do_start
>>> case "$?" in
>>> 0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
>>> 1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still
>>> running
>>> *) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
>>> esac
>>> ;;
>>> *)
>>> # Failed to stop
>>> log_end_msg 1
>>> ;;
>>> esac
>>> ;;
>>> status)
>>> is_running
>>> stat=$?
>>> case "$stat" in
>>> 0) log_success_msg "$DESC is running" ;;
>>> 1) log_failure_msg "could not access pidfile for $DESC" ;;
>>> *) log_success_msg "$DESC is not running" ;;
>>> esac
>>> exit "$stat"
>>> ;;
>>> *)
>>> echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}"
>>> >&2
>>> exit 3
>>> ;;
>>> esac
>>>
>>> :
>>>
>>> # vi:ai sw=4 ts=4 tw=0 et
>>> ############################################################
>>> ########################################
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Ajay
>>>
>>
>>
Right. Cron is not a full shell and does not by default source things like
.profile. crons man pages discuss this.
A shortcut is sometimes
* * * * * /etc/profile & cmd
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