Run as a daemon

[tollmanz]

Do you have a recommended way to run Boomcatch as a daemon? If you happen to have an init.d script, that would be even better.

Thanks!

[philbooth]

Hey Zack, so I'm definitely not an expert, but this is the init.d script that one of our ops people put together for me:

#!/bin/bash
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

PATH=/usr/local/bin:${PATH}
CMD="boomcatch --prefix rum. --referer '^https?://(localhost:5400|([\w-]+\.)?(nature|palgrave(-journals|connect))\.com)(/.*)?$' --fwdHost graphite.npgsrv.com --fwdPort 8125 --port 8080 --syslog local0 --mapper statsd-npg > /dev/null 2>&1 &"

app_pid() {
  echo `ps -aefw | grep "node /usr/local/bin/boomcatch" | grep -v " grep " | awk '{print $2}'`
}

case "$1" in
  start)
    echo -n "Starting boomcatch: "
    daemon --user boomcatch $CMD && echo_success || echo_failure
    echo $(app_pid) > /var/run/boomcatch.pid
    RETVAL=$?
    echo
    [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/boomcatch
  ;;
  stop)
    if test "x`pidofproc boomcatch`" != x; then
      echo -n "Stopping boomcatch: "
      killproc boomcatch
    fi
    RETVAL=$?
    echo
    [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/boomcatch /var/run/boomcatch.pid
  ;;
  status)
    status boomcatch
  ;;
  restart)
    $0 stop
    $0 start
  ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: boomcatch {start|stop|status|restart}"
    exit 1
  ;;
esac

Note that we're running on port 8080 because it is behind Nginx in our set-up.

I guess I need to document daemonizing boomcatch in the readme. I've held off until now because I'm worried I don't really know what I'm talking about. :-/

EDIT: Added missing shebang to source listing.

[tollmanz]

Awesome! Thanks @philbooth!

I talked to a colleague about this issue prior to your response, and he guided me toward runit, which made it really easy to keep the server running. I simply had to add the following run script:

#!/bin/sh
exec boomcatch --port 8128 --fwdPort 8127

I am happy to close this issue; however, I think you would be well served to have a suggestion or (gasp) official init script for Boomcatch. Your call, but it would be really helpful for others.

[philbooth]

Yeah, you're right. I'll leave this issue open until there is either documentation or a script.