Faidon Liambotis created CASSANDRA-6239:
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Summary: pidfile is never written, "/etc/init.d/cassandra stop"
fails
Key: CASSANDRA-6239
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6239
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Packaging
Reporter: Faidon Liambotis
The init script tries, via start-stop-daemon, to write a pidfile to
/var/run/cassandra/cassandra.pid. /var/run/cassandra doesn't exist (righftully
so, /var/run can be a tmpfs), so the init script has this stanza above the
start-stop-daemon invocation:
{code:none}
[ -e `dirname "PIDFILE"` ] || \
install -d -ocassandra -gcassandra -m750 `dirname $PIDFILE`
{code}
The first line is missing the dollar sign before the PIDFILE variable (i.e. it
should be 'dirname "$PIDFILE"'). This has the effect that "dirname PIDFILE" is
called, with the PIDFILE as a literal, which always returns "." as the output,
which always exists, so the "install" call never gets executed, the directory
never gets created and start-stop-daemon is unable to write the pidfile.
The pidfile is never written and "/etc/init.d/cassandra stop" never works.
Adding a $ before PIDFILE fixes the issue. This has been tested.
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