On Nov 7, 2007 9:13 PM, Tiberiu Motoc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David, > > Thanks for all your help. It now makes sense how it all works. >
Hi Tiberiu, thanks, I'm glad to hear that! > Unfortunately for me it doesn't work and I don't think it is because > of mongrel_cluster. > > After you mentioned that I should have a symbolic link to > mongrel_cluster_ctl in /usr/bin, > Oops, did I say that? I meant to say that the actual script 'mongrel_cluster_ctl' should reside in /usr/bin. But I have to admit that that was a simplification; the script should reside in the same directory as the 'ruby' binary. I realized that maybe the whole Ruby environment is not available at boot > time. I installed Ruby in a shared location, but there are not symbolic > links in /usr/bin to any of the Ruby utilities. > Well, there needn't be. You can have you entire ruby installation in /usr/local or /what/ever, as long as you put /usr/local/bin or /what/ever/bin in your path. Where is that shared location? How do you access it? The reason I ask is that mongrel_cluster normally starts after all network services have been started. A typical FC6 box would have this (and more) in /etc/rc3.d: S10network (starts the network interface) S25netfs (mounts remote shares) S28autofs (starts the automounter) S60nfs (starts nfs sharing) S85mongrel_cluster And since the scripts are run in this order, remote shares should be available. To test this, I created a small Ruby script which write "TEST" to a file in > /tmp; I call this script from a bash script which I put in the /etc/init.d > directory and which I configured using /sbin/chkconfig (similar to the setup > of mongrel_cluster). Guess what?! No file is created in the /tmp directory > at boot time. > Just to check: if you put echo TEST > /tmp/my_test_script_runs in the bash script, does that work as expected? And second, do you call the ruby script as a command or a script, i.e., do you say my_script or ruby my_script And finally, what does the script look like? So now my question becomes: what is the proper way of installing Ruby on a > Linux machine? I did create a symbolic link to "ruby" in /usr/bin, but I > don't think that's enough. What other symbolic links do I need? > You don't need any symbolic links as long as the bin directory is in your path. If you compile it on your own, it's quite common to put it /usr/local since that is what 'configure' does by default. The 'proper' way is a matter of taste. If you enjoy being an admin, go ahead and install everything from source and put it in /usr/local. If you don't, use your distro's package manager (yum, dep, apt, rpm, what have you) and let it put things in /usr. Arguing about which is best borders on philosophy. I still don't have a solution for you, but keep talking! Good luck, /David
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