Hi everyone,

I have to run a process as a daemon on a Centos 6 Server; but because Centos doesn't have a daemon tool I have installed this tool from http://libslack.org/daemon/.

Now the problem is that when i run:

# daemon --name koha-zebra-daemon --restart
daemon: fatal: failed to find pid for koha-zebra-daemon: No such file or directory

the daemon tool doesn't find the PID files for the daemon that are located in:
/var/lock/koha/zebradb/biblios/zebrasrv.pid
/var/lock/koha/zebradb/authorities/zebrasrv.pid

It seems that I have to specify in the file "koha-zebra-daemon" where are located the PID files; but I don't know how can I do this.

I copy here the content of the koha-zebra-daemon file located in /etc/init.d:
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#!/bin/bash

# This file is part of Koha.
#
# Koha is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
# terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
# version.
#
# Koha is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
# WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
# A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
# Koha; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place,
# Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: koha-zebra-daemon
# Required-Start: $syslog $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $syslog $remote_fs
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Zebra server daemon for Koha indexing
### END INIT INFO

USER=koha
GROUP=koha
DBNAME=koha
NAME=koha-zebra-ctl.$DBNAME
LOGDIR=/var/log/koha
ERRLOG=$LOGDIR/koha-zebradaemon.err
STDOUT=$LOGDIR/koha-zebradaemon.log
OUTPUT=$LOGDIR/koha-zebradaemon-output.log
KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
RUNDIR=/var/run/koha/zebradb
LOCKDIR=/var/lock/koha/zebradb
# you may need to change this depending on where zebrasrv is installed
ZEBRASRV=usr/local/bin/zebrasrv
ZEBRAOPTIONS="-v none,fatal,warn"

test -f $ZEBRASRV || exit 0

OTHERUSER=''
if [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then
OTHERUSER="--user=$USER.$GROUP"
fi

case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting Zebra Server"

# create run and lock directories if needed;
# /var/run and /var/lock are completely cleared at boot
# on some platforms
if [[ ! -d $RUNDIR ]]; then
umask 022
mkdir -p $RUNDIR
if [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then
chown $USER:$GROUP $RUNDIR
fi
fi
if [[ ! -d $LOCKDIR ]]; then
umask 022
mkdir -p $LOCKDIR
mkdir -p $LOCKDIR/biblios
mkdir -p $LOCKDIR/authorities
if [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then
chown -R $USER:$GROUP $LOCKDIR
fi
fi

daemon --name=$NAME --errlog=$ERRLOG --stdout=$STDOUT --output=$OUTPUT --verbose=1 --respawn --delay=30 $OTHERUSER -- $ZEBRASRV $ZEBRAOPTIONS -f $KOHA_CONF
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping Zebra Server"
daemon --name=$NAME --errlog=$ERRLOG --stdout=$STDOUT --output=$OUTPUT --verbose=1 --respawn --delay=30 $OTHERUSER --stop -- $ZEBRASRV -f $KOHA_CONF
;;
restart)
echo "Restarting the Zebra Server"
daemon --name=$NAME --errlog=$ERRLOG --stdout=$STDOUT --output=$OUTPUT --verbose=1 --respawn --delay=30 $OTHERUSER --restart -- $ZEBRASRV -f $KOHA_CONF
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
;;
esac
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Thanks and Kind Regards
Alessandro

You could just use xinetd (which you can install from CentOS repos) and use it to run and manage your daemon.

An example I found is at:

http://linuxpoison.blogspot.co.uk/20...ice-under.html

Hope this helps.

Hi there,

I'm not familiar with koha, but from the following comment in your post:

and these extracts from the init script:
It looks like you are using different names for the daemon from the command line & in the script.

To test this possibility, you could try running:
instead of:

Hi Cliffordw,

thank you for your answer.

Probably you have the reason, in fact if I run from the command line:

----
# /etc/init.d/koha-zebra-daemon restart
Restarting the Zebra Server
daemon: fatal: failed to find pid for koha-zebra-ctl.koha: No such file or directory
----

It gets the real name of the daemon: "koha-zebra-ctl.koha", but however the problem with PID file still remain.

Thanks and Regards
Alessandro

Hi everyone,

finally I have solved the iusse:

the problem was in the user and group of the folder interesting in the daemon process.

I have just set the folder (and their files):

/var/log/koha
/var/run/koha
/var/lock/koha

as
#chown -R koha. .


And then run:

#/etc/init.d/koha-zebra-daemon start
Starting Zebra Server

And now the daemon run fine:

# ps aux | grep zebra
koha 9707 0.0 0.0 5524 648 ? S 07:34 0:00 daemon --name=koha-zebra-ctl.koha --errlog=/var/log/koha/koha-zebradaemon.err --stdout=/var/log/koha/koha-zebradaemon.log --output=/var/log/koha/koha-zebradaemon-output.log --verbose=1 --respawn --delay=30 --user=koha.koha -- usr/local/bin/zebrasrv -v none,fatal,warn -f /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
koha 9725 0.0 0.4 9040 4164 ? S 07:36 0:00 usr/local/bin/zebrasrv -v none,fatal,warn -f /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
root 9779 0.0 0.0 5476 744 pts/0 S+ 07:45 0:00 grep zebra


Thanks to all for your help and suggestion

Alessandro