OK, for fun... I changed DAEMON_USER=web2py to root to see what would
happen...
I then ran /etc/init.d/web2py start. I was prompted for a password and the
service started taking over the CLI as if I had launched it from the CLI
directly.
root@beaglebone:/etc/init.d# web2py start
web2py Web Framework
Created by Massimo Di Pierro, Copyright 2007-2014
Version 2.9.5-stable+timestamp.2014.03.16.02.35.39
Database drivers available: SQLite(sqlite3), MySQL(pymysql),
PostgreSQL(pg8000), IMAP(imaplib)
WARNING:web2py:GUI not available because Tk library is not installed
choose a password:
please visit:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/
use "kill -SIGTERM 8504" to shutdown the web2py server
I'm officially back to stuck and could use some pointers.
Thanks,
-p
On Saturday, August 9, 2014 4:33:58 PM UTC-10, Patrick Walters wrote:
>
> I have made much progress on this since I posted and it got approved.
>
> 1) I was using python syntax in a bash script... :-) I removed the () and
> switched to single quotes.
>
> DAEMON_ARGS='web2py.py -a "t3st3st" -i 192.168.1.20 -p 8000
> -c /usr/share/ssl-cert/server.crt -k /usr/share/ssl-cert/server.key
> --pid_filename=$PIDFILE'
>
>
> 2) the version of web2py in python-web2py from apt-get was old. I deleted
> /usr/sahrewb2py and then downloaded and copied web2py from github to
> /usr/share/web2py
>
> It still fails when I try /etc/init.d/web2py start, but now I am at least
> getting useful errors.
>
> root@bbbrevc:/# /etc/init.d/web2py status
> web2py.service - LSB: web2py initscript
> Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/web2py)
> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat, 09 Aug 2014
> 16:27:38 -1000; 4min 40s ago
> Process: 4552 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/web2py start (code=exited,
> status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT)
> CGroup: name=systemd:/system/web2py.service
>
> Aug 09 16:27:38 bbbrevc web2py[4552]: Starting Web Framework: web2pychown:
> ...y'
> Aug 09 16:27:38 bbbrevc web2py[4552]: start-stop-daemon: user 'web2py' not
> found
> Aug 09 16:27:38 bbbrevc web2py[4552]: failed!
>
>
>
> Have to run out but I'll be back online in a few hours and back at this...
> if anyone has a suggestion still would love the help.
>
> Thanks,
> -p
>
>
> On Saturday, August 9, 2014 1:12:41 PM UTC-10, Patrick Walters wrote:
>>
>> I'm setting up on a BeagleBone Black Rev C running Debian and following
>> along with the book where I can.
>> I should mentions I installed web2py using apt-get and my Debian is
>> Wheezy.
>>
>> I never use the desktop on my BBB, so I want everything to work without
>> GUI.
>> I was able to run web2py from the CLI and now I want to set it up to run
>> as a service. The python-web2py in debian doesn't include the scripts
>> directory (that I can find) so I grabbed
>> https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/master/scripts/web2py.ubuntu.sh
>> and modified it for debian replacing the
>> DAEMON_DIR=/usr/lib/$NAMEwith DAEMON_DIR=/usr/share/$NAME
>> when I run that /etc/init.d/web2py start I get all the same GTK errors
>> when I try to run it from the CLI without specifying a password. So, just
>> to try this out, I modified
>> DAEMON_ARGS="web2py.py --password=<recycle> --pid_filename=$PIDFILE"to
>> have ALL the CLI argument I passed when I was able to run it manually.
>>
>> DAEMON_ARGS=("web2py.py --nogui -a 'password' -i 192.168.1.100 -p 8000 " +
>>
>> "-c /usr/share/ssl-cert/server.crt -k /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssl/server.key"
>> +
>>
>> " --pid_filename=$PIDFILE")
>>
>>
>> I even added in --nogui for safe measure, but i'm still getting the GTK
>> errors when I run /etc/init.d/web2py start.
>>
>> Any suggestions or pointers for more information would be very helpful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -p
>>
>
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