make the debian package never start by default
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Key: CASSANDRA-2356
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2356
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Jeremy Hanna
Priority: Minor
Currently the debian package that installs cassandra starts cassandra by
default. It sounds like that is a standard debian packaging convention.
However, if you want to bootstrap a new node and want to configure it before it
creates any sort of state information, it's a pain. I would think that the
common use case would be to have it install all of the init scripts and such
but *not* have it start up by default. That way an admin can configure
cassandra with seed, token, host, etc. information and then start it. That
makes it easier to programmatically do this as well - have chef/puppet install
cassandra, do some configuration, then do the service start.
With the current setup, it sounds like cassandra creates state on startup that
has to be cleaned before a new configuration can take effect. So the process
of installing turns into:
* install debian package
* shutdown cassandra
* clean out state (data/log dirs)
* configure cassandra
* start cassandra
That seems suboptimal for the default case, especially when trying to automate
new nodes being bootstrapped.
Another case might be when a downed node comes back up and starts by default
and tries to claim a token that has already been claimed by another newly
bootstrapped node. Rob is more familiar with that case so I'll let him explain
it in the comments.
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