Mongrel users - Jun 2006 - log and pid file problems when using a config file w/ -C

Hi there,

I''m using Mongrel (0.3.13 prerelease, installed today) to serve up some
Rails apps in production. Everything works fine if I give all the
appropriate options on the command line, such as:

$ mongrel_rails start -c /home/mcornick/rails/mcornick.org/current -P
log/mongrel.pid -l log/mongrel.log -e production -d -a 127.0.0.1 -p 6833

So, having accomplished that, I thought it would be easier to dump all
that stuff into a config file to use with the -C option. So I did this:

$ mongrel_rails start -c /home/mcornick/rails/mcornick.org/current -P
log/mongrel.pid -l log/mongrel.log -e production -d -a 127.0.0.1 -p 6833 -G
config/mongrel.yml

Which also worked, and generated a YAML file with my options:

--- 
:cwd: /home/mcornick/rails/mcornick.org/current
:includes: 
- mongrel
:environment: production
:timeout: 0
:log_file: log/mongrel.log
:config_script: 
#:pid_file: log/mongrel.pid
:num_processors: 1024
:debug: false
:group: 
:docroot: public
:user: 
:host: 127.0.0.1
:mime_map: 
:port: "6833"
:daemon: true

And it almost works. If I then try:

$ mongrel_rails start -C
/home/mcornick/rails/mcornick.org/current/config/mongrel.yml
** You have sendfile installed, will use that to serve files.
!!! Path to log file not valid: log/mongrel.log
start reported an error. Use mongrel_rails start -h to get help.

Which makes me think the cwd option isn''t being picked up. OK, no
biggie,
I change directories to /home/mcornick/rails/mcornick.org/current and:

$ mongrel_rails start -C config/mongrel.yml
** You have sendfile installed, will use that to serve files.
** Loading settings from config/mongrel.yml (command line options override).
** Starting Mongrel in production mode at 127.0.0.1:6833
** Daemonizing, any open files are closed.  Look at log/mongrel.pid and
log/mongrel.log for info.

Looks good, mongrel is running, except that the log/mongrel.pid file is not
created (although the log/mongrel.log file is.) So I can''t later do
mongrel_rails stop, or easily restart from my Capistrano recipe, etc.

Do I have the config file syntax right? (I didn''t change any of the
keys
from the -G output.) Is there something else I should be doing here?

BTW, I am running with Ruby 1.8.4 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. I have the
sendfile gem installed, as well as mongrel_cluster which I haven''t done
anything with yet, in addition to the standard set of Rails 1.1.2 gems.

Thanks,
--mark

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:46:50PM -0400, Mark Cornick
wrote:
> Which also worked, and generated a YAML file with my options:
> 
> --- 
> :cwd: /home/mcornick/rails/mcornick.org/current
> :includes: 
> - mongrel
> :environment: production
> :timeout: 0
> :log_file: log/mongrel.log
> :config_script: 
> #:pid_file: log/mongrel.pid
> :num_processors: 1024
> :debug: false
> :group: 
> :docroot: public
> :user: 
> :host: 127.0.0.1
> :mime_map: 
> :port: "6833"
> :daemon: true
Oops. I left :pid_file: commented out; I had tried it that way to see if
just leaving it at the default setting would help. It didn''t; I see no
pid file written whether I have :pid_file: commented or not. Sorry
''bout
that.

--mark