That's a bummer. Anyhow I'll give it a shot and update this thread if I get anywhere.
Thanks for your help. On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, 04:30 Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 2/17/2016 11:37 AM, Binoy Dalal wrote: > > At my project, we aren't that big on directory and user set up but the > fact > > that services can be started and stopped automatically on server reboots > > and ensuring single running copies of the service is of significance. > > Now currently we are running Solr 4.4 but pretty soon we're going to > > upgrade to Solr 4.10.4. > > If I'm not wrong, the install scripts that set everything up ship with > Solr > > 5.x. In this case, how do I set up my solr instances to behave like > > services created by the scripts in 5.x? > > I understand that this would entail setting up the init scripts and > > environment variables, and I do not have a lot of experience with those, > so > > it'll be great if you can just walk me through it. > > The "bin/solr" script was introduced in version 4.10, but I think the > service install script did not appear until 5.0. > > Between 4.10 and 5.0, Solr's directory structure and the start/install > scripts underwent a fairly extensive reorganization. Further > reorganization and improvements have happened in later 5.x releases. > Getting the init script working properly with 4.x will involve a lot of > work to figure out what is different in 4.x and adjust the script. > There's no formal documentation that you can look at to describe what > those differences are. The work was handled in multiple Jira issues, > and some of it may not be documented at all, other than commits to the > source code repository. > > Thanks, > Shawn > > -- Regards, Binoy Dalal
