That doesn't seem like it solves the problem. launchd (and other tools like it) don't want processes to daemonize themselves (which is what riak start does). Is there a blessed way to run Riak not daemonized?
Will On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Kelly McLaughlin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Izzy. Use riak start and then you can use riak attach if you need to > attach a console to the running instance. > > Kelly > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 26, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Izzy Alanis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Has anyone gotten riak to run under launchd? > > > > Or, is there a way to run riak in console mode without the interactive > > erlang shell? > > > > Launchd doesn't want its subprocesses to daemonize themselves. If I > > set up a launch file to run riak in the foreground with "riak > > console", its the same as running "riak console < /dev/null" from the > > command line, and (I'm guessing here:) the interactive shell sees the > > end of stream and ends the console session. > > > > I expect you'd have the same problem using supervisor as your process > > controller. Supervisor has a pixproxy program to help in these sort of > > situations, but riak is not writing out a pid file either(?!). > > > > Things I've tried: > > > > Piping input from /dev/zero is understandably disastrous: > >> riak console < /dev/zero > > > > Piping input from a fifo just hangs: > >> mkfifo < /tmp/myfifo > >> riak console < /tmp/myfifo > > > > This seems to mostly work (or might really work well with some extra > > bash scripting): > >> mkfifo < /tmp/myfifo > >> echo > /tmp/myfifo & > >> riak console < /tmp/myfifo > > I have that last one in a wrapper script. I could add the bells and > > whistles to make the fifo a random filename and make sure it gets > > cleaned up after the script end, etc, etc, etc. > > > > Here's my launch config (below), FYI. I'm running it out of > > /Library/LaunchDaemons, and errang *really* wants a HOME environment > > variable which is a gotcha for anybody else out there!: > > > > Anybody else get something like this working? > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" > > "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";> > > <plist version="1.0"> > > <dict> > > <key>Label</key> > > <string>com.basho.riak</string> > > <key>OnDemand</key> > > <false/> > > <key>Program</key> > > <string>/opt/riak/bin/riak-wrapper</string> > > <key>EnvironmentVariables</key> > > <dict> > > <key>HOME</key> > > <string>/opt/riak/</string> > > </dict> > > <key>StandardOutPath</key> > > <string>/opt/riak/log/console.log</string> > > <key>StandardErrorPath</key> > > <string>/opt/riak/log/error.log</string> > > <key>SoftResourceLimits</key> > > <dict> > > <key>NumberOfFiles</key> > > <integer>4096</integer> > > </dict> > > <key>HardResourceLimits</key> > > <dict> > > <key>NumberOfFiles</key> > > <integer>4096</integer> > > </dict> > > </dict> > > </plist> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > riak-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >
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