Bug 210234 – net-im/ejabberd init script should not use env with start-stop-daemon

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Luca Barbato 2008-02-15 11:54:15 UTC]

The current init script is bogus for openrc since env isn't a deamon and returns.

probably running erl with the -name option could work alike

[Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2008-02-18 15:17:40 UTC]

I've noted the start up issue too, but I don't understand your suggestion.

But please feel free to modify/bump/do whatever you'd like to do to this to make it better! :)

[Comment 2 Luca Barbato 2008-02-18 20:52:51 UTC]

I misunderstood completely the erl parameter (my setup seems to miss the manpages), still I'll give a try soon

[Comment 3 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2008-02-22 16:40:00 UTC]

One thing I've tried here is:

        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid jabber:jabber -e HOME=/var/run/jabber \
                --exec /usr/bin/ejabberd -- -noshell -detached

I still get an error on startup, but at least "env" isn't being used anymore.

[Comment 4 Luca Barbato 2008-02-22 16:57:07 UTC]

something alike

export HOME=/var/run/jabber
su -m -c /usr/bin/ejabberd jabber

could be an 1/2 solution maybe?

[Comment 5 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2008-02-22 17:04:21 UTC]

works for me if you're happy with it (providing that su is installed on the machine).

[Comment 6 Craig Andrews 2008-09-25 01:44:04 UTC]

The su solution is kinda uncool... Roy, do you have any ideas?

[Comment 7 Roy Marples 2008-09-25 08:52:37 UTC]

The su solution is the correct one - /usr/sbin/ejabberd is just a script that in turn launches daemons. As such it should not be used with s-s-s.

So either use the su soltuion OR put that script into the init script and use s-s-d for the real daemons.

[Comment 8 Craig Andrews 2008-09-26 02:42:38 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> The su solution is the correct one - /usr/sbin/ejabberd is just a script that
> in turn launches daemons. As such it should not be used with s-s-s.
> 
> So either use the su soltuion OR put that script into the init script and use
> s-s-d for the real daemons.
> 

So which solution do the portage maintainers want? I don't want to implementation a solution that won't be acceptable :-)

[Comment 9 Roy Marples 2008-09-26 07:12:27 UTC]

The only reason to move the logic of /usr/sbin/ejabberd to /etc/init.d/ejabberd would be so that OpenRC can track the daemons to ensure they are still running.
Otherwise there is no gain.

[Comment 10 Wormo (RETIRED) 2009-01-19 02:54:01 UTC]

*** Bug 255362 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 11 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2010-01-23 18:49:25 UTC]

JFI: With version bump, I'm going to make init script just a wrapper around ejabberdctl. Probably there should be another way around, but without close work with upstream, I'd better not go any different way.

[Comment 12 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2010-06-21 08:00:57 UTC]

Should be fixed in 2.1.4.