I have written an init.d script thats starts and stops a twistd. You need to create a .tac file and create a daemon. A wee bit more tricky but you can start twistd fine.
Thanks, Garyc --- On Wed, 4/21/10, Tim Allen <screwt...@froup.com> wrote: > From: Tim Allen <screwt...@froup.com> > Subject: Re: [Twisted-Python] twistd and init.d > To: "Twisted general discussion" <twisted-python@twistedmatrix.com> > Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 7:16 AM > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 01:38:09PM > +0200, Don Schoeman wrote: > > This works fine when running > /etc/init.d/ghserver start and > > /etc/init.d/ghserver stop. The script > also run when I boot since the > > logger actually logs the "GHServer: > Starting" text to the > > /var/log/messages file. However, my > service actually does not start. There > > is no pid to be found anywhere, there are > no error logs anywhere, just > > nothing. I might be doing something wrong > here but is there someone who's > > gone through this process and can provide > some samples how they did it? > > I haven't written an init-script for twistd myself, I just > use the one > auto-generated by tap2rpm. You can compare your script to > the template > tap2rpm uses and see if that gives you any clues: > > > http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted/scripts/tap2rpm.py#L17 > > It surprises me that you say you can tell that the script > runs at boot > because you can see it in /var/log/messages - although most > Linux > distros hide the boot-script messages by default, they > usually provide > a way to display them for debugging purposes such as these > (different > distributions use different actions to trigger boot > messages; if you > can't find instructions for your distribution online, you > might try > hitting Escape a few times at different parts of the boot > sequence). > > Finally, in my limited experience of diagnosing scripts > that work from > an interactive shell but not at boot time, you might want > to look for > code that uses environment variables. $EMPLOYER once had > some scripts > that got some particular setting from an environment > variable that was > only set by interactive shells - so if you ssh'd to the > machine and ran > the code, it'd be fine, but it crashed when run at bootup. > > CentOS (and perhaps other Linux distributions) has a tool > called > /sbin/service. If you run "/sbin/service ghserver start" > rather than > "/etc/init.d/ghserver start", /sbin/service will start the > service in > a clean, boot-like environment and you might get more > debugging clues > that way. > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
