Ferret talk - Apr 2007 - Launching DRb server on reboot: solved

The problem with getting DRb to luanch on reboot is the same problem
causing some people to ahve trouble getting mongrel clustersw to come
back up on reboot.  The problem is the PATH.  ON many new RH
distributions running SELinux, /usr/local/bin is not added to the PATH
until reboot is complete.  Therefore, those of having installed ruby
in /usr/local/bin run in to issues.  SO, hoping to save someone else a
bit of their sanity, simply adding PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH to your
actual ferret DRb startup script will do the trick.  Here''s our entire
startup script:

#!/bin/bash
#
# This script starts and stops the ferret DRb server
# chkconfig: 2345 89 36
# description: Ferret search engine for ruby apps.
#
# save the current directory
CURDIR=`pwd`
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

RORPATH="/path/to/ror_root"

case "$1" in
   start)
      cd $RORPATH
      echo "Starting ferret DRb server."
      FERRET_USE_LOCAL_INDEX=1 \
                 script/runner -e production \
                 vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/script/ferret_start
      ;;
   stop)
      cd $RORPATH
      echo "Stopping ferret DRb server."
      FERRET_USE_LOCAL_INDEX=1 \
                 script/runner -e production \
                 vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/script/ferret_stop
      ;;
   *)
      echo $"Usage: $0 {start, stop}"
      exit 1
      ;;
esac

cd $CURDIR

Cool. 

Mind adding the script and the info about the path issue to the aaf wiki
[1] for further reference ?

Thanks,
Jens

[1] http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 09:57:01PM -0400, Sean Brown
wrote:
> The problem with getting DRb to luanch on reboot is the same problem
> causing some people to ahve trouble getting mongrel clustersw to come
> back up on reboot.  The problem is the PATH.  ON many new RH
> distributions running SELinux, /usr/local/bin is not added to the PATH
> until reboot is complete.  Therefore, those of having installed ruby
> in /usr/local/bin run in to issues.  SO, hoping to save someone else a
> bit of their sanity, simply adding PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH to your
> actual ferret DRb startup script will do the trick.  Here''s our
entire
> startup script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> # This script starts and stops the ferret DRb server
> # chkconfig: 2345 89 36
> # description: Ferret search engine for ruby apps.
> #
> # save the current directory
> CURDIR=`pwd`
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
> 
> RORPATH="/path/to/ror_root"
> 
> case "$1" in
>    start)
>       cd $RORPATH
>       echo "Starting ferret DRb server."
>       FERRET_USE_LOCAL_INDEX=1 \
>                  script/runner -e production \
>                  vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/script/ferret_start
>       ;;
>    stop)
>       cd $RORPATH
>       echo "Stopping ferret DRb server."
>       FERRET_USE_LOCAL_INDEX=1 \
>                  script/runner -e production \
>                  vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/script/ferret_stop
>       ;;
>    *)
>       echo $"Usage: $0 {start, stop}"
>       exit 1
>       ;;
> esac
> 
> cd $CURDIR
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