I've followed instructions online to set up a Telescope instance on my DigitalOcean droplet, but it won't start with Upstart.
I'm able to run the server successfully manually, but the Upstart task doesn't fire when the server boots. I'm sure I should be looking at a log file somewhere to discover the problem, but I'm not sure where.
I've looked for the location of upstart logs, but I'm not having any luck. Either you have to add something to your script to make it log, or it just does it according to accounts online, but neither of those seem to be the case for me.
When I try to search for help on Upstart, I'm also seeing people saying I should be using systemd instead, but I can't figure out how to install it on CentOS 6.5.
Can anyone help me figure a way out of this labyrinth?
I use Ubuntu server 14.04, and my upstart logs are located in /var/log/upstart
The log usually contains stdout from the job, and it should help you understand what's wrong.
My guess is that when the server boots and tries to run your job, MongoDB is not yet ready so it fails silently.
Try installing the specific MongoDB version that Meteor is using at the moment (2.4.9) using these docs :
http://docs.mongodb.org/v2.4/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/
The most important thing is to get upstart support for MongoDB, this will allow us to catch mongod launch as an event.
You can then use this syntax in your upstart script :
start on started mongodb
This will make your node app start when mongo is ready.
I've created a gist with the scripts I wrote to setup a server ready for Meteor app deployment, it's a bit messy and probably specific to Ubuntu but it might help you.
https://gist.github.com/saimeunt/4ace7975b12df06ee0b7
I'm also using demeteorizer and forever which are two great tools you should probably check.
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When I deployed my play application I built the package using:
dist
This created a file that I can run on my server like:
sudo ./bin/app-name -Dhttp.port=9090
This works fine for testing but how can I run this process in the background?
I will eventually have to use upstart or some sort of process monitoring tool to make sure this process is running after server reboots etc.
Using play 2.3.x
Since you are on ubuntu
sudo ./bin/app-name -Dhttp.port=9090 &
should do the trick.
Ceating the upstart script is also fairly easy https://askubuntu.com/questions/18802/how-to-correctly-add-a-custom-daemon-to-init-d
In your case it would be in /etc/init/app-name.conf and look like
# app-name
#
start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]
respawn
exec $PATH_TO_APP/bin/app-name -Dhttp.port=9090
Of course you will want to change the RUNLEVEL and the PATH_TO_APP
That of course depends on the system at which you're deploying the app, anyway in general you need to run it as a deamon.
Refer to your system's documentations, I'm pretty sure that you will find tutorial very soon.
I am installing the MapR and I stucked at starting warden after start zookeeper on a single node.
# service mapr-warden start
Error: warden can not be started. See /opt/mapr/logs/warden.log for details
On this file there is no detail. Does anybody have a hint? Thanks =)
If you aren't getting anything in warden.log, then it's likely that the warden JVM is never even being started by the mapr-warden init script.
In some MapR versions, the mapr-warden init script will log some details into /opt/mapr/logs/wardeninit.log. You can try checking there.
However, I will also caution that currently the logging done by the init script is sparse and not necessarily user friendly to read. If you can't discern the cause from the contents of the wardeninit.log you can post them here and maybe I can help.
Another thing you can do is edit /etc/init.d/mapr-warden and add "set -x" towards the top of the file, right before the "BASEMAPR=" line, then try starting warden again and you'll get a bunch of shell debugging output on your screen. If you copy and paste that output here that should be enough to tell the root cause of the problem.
One more thing to mention, you may be better off using the http://answers.mapr.com forum as that is MapR specific and I think there may be more users there that could help.
Was configure.sh (/opt/mapr/server/configure.sh -C nodeA -Z nodeA)run on the node? Did zookeeper come up successfully?
service mapr-zookeeper status
Even when using MapR in a single node configure.sh is still required. In fact, without configure.sh warden, zookeeper, cldb and other MapR components will lack their configuration and in many cases will fail to start.
You must run configure.sh after installing the software packages (deb or rpm).
I have a problem trying to implement a mongodb replica set as a worker role instance in Windows Azure. In the Windows Azure portal, one of the instances is shown as busy with the status:
Waiting for role to start... Calling OnRoleStart()
I have checked all the settings and everything seems to be ok, what could the problem be?
Denis Markelov's blog post helped me solve this problem. The solution is mainly his, however I had to take an extra step to get it to work and thought others might find it useful.
Solution from blog:
Windows Azure reuses virtual machines for roles, so after a fresh
deployment on a hard drive you can find files that were created during
previous sessions. If MongoDB was terminated improperly - there might
be a lock file ("persisted mutex" analogue), because of which MongoDB
refuses to start. It is located at the drive with a label
"WindowsAzureDrive" (say it is F:), at the path:
F:\data\mongod.lock
In the case of a production use this situation might require a
recovery procedures, but if you are just in the process of initial
setup - it is safe to remove this file, letting MongoDB to start
again.
I was having this problem and did as suggested, however I was still having the same problem. So I took a look at the log file at
C:\Resources\Directory\.MongoDB.WindowsAzure.MongoDBRole.MongodLogDir\mongod.txt
And saw that another file was also giving an error. In order to fix the problem, you also have to delete the file local.ns in the same directory as mongod.lock.
We're currently using chef to provision our servers and we want our recipe/cookbook to automatically add some data to the mongo database once its installed and running.
This is where we start to run into problems. We were using an execute resource to run the mongo script like this:
execute "install-mongodb-config" do
command "mongo #{node[:mongodb][:mongo_db_host]}/#{node[:mongodb][:mongo_db]} \"#{node[:mongodb][:mongo_add_config_script]}\""
action :run
end
This part of the recipe always failed no matter what we tried! I won't get into the details of everything we tried here (unless i need to) but lets just say that i've exhausted all possibilities of subscribes and notifies (i think).
The problem originates from the fact that we are using the mongodb::10gen_repo to install mongodb. The recipe exits when apt-get installs the package and then chef continues on to execute more resourses.
We have tried executing the above resource directly after mongodb::10gen_repo but it doesn't seem like mongodb is available and the mongo shell cannot connect and run the script. The error we see is somewhat like this:
MongoDB shell version: 2.0.2
Thu Sep 6 18:40:45 ReferenceError: setTimeout is not defined mongotest.js:2
failed to load: mongoAddConfig.js
Nothing we have tried has been able to get around this in a nice chef way. The thing that we resorted to was to replace the execute resource with the following:
execute "install-mongodb-config" do
command "sleep 60; mongo #{node[:mongodb][:mongo_db_host]}/#{node[:mongodb][:mongo_db]} \"#{node[:mongodb][:mongo_add_config_script]}\""
action :run
end
Which just makes the command sleep for 60 seconds before the mongo script is run. I know this isn't the Right way to do this but it works for now.
Can anyone suggest the Right way to do this? I have a feeling that I will need to talk to the guys that created the mongodb chef script and request a feature!
First of all. Remove this "sleep 60". This can be done by chef: All resources have common attributes and "retries" and "retry_delay" are part of them. So the easiest way would be:
execute "install-mongodb-config" do
command "mongo some_command"
action :run
retries 6
retry_delay 10
end
If you have more than 2-3 places, where you have to run some command on mongo database, consider creating LWRP, similar to one created in this mongodb cookbook. (Particularly check the libraries/mongodb.rb file). You can hide the logic that waits for the server to respond there.
Is it important that the same Chef run that installs the software also injects the initial configuration? The 'chefly' method to constructing cookbooks and recipes is to guard against idempotency in order to ensure that they can be run over and over again without producing unintended results.
In this particular case, I would limit the first recipe to only just installing and starting up mongodb. This recipe would do nothing if it saw that mongodb was already running on the host. Then, I'd have another recipe that would run only if it saw that mongo had been setup and was running. It would query the mongodb to see if the initial configuration had been done. If so, it would simply return. If not, it would run your configuration routine.
In this way, these recipes could run all the time, anytime, on your machine. Even if someone uninstalled mongodb, chef would get around to ensuring that it was set back up again and pristine.
So, I don't know much at all about chef. But your problem seems to be that you try to immediately connect after bringing the server up.
Server's are not immediately available when you bring them up since there is a bit of overhead that goes into electing a primary, getting all the server status's etc.
You can recreate this without chef by trying to bring up a replica set and immediately trying to connect to it in a simple script. So it's not chef specific.
Not sure if there is a way around the server startup lag since bringing up a primary is expected to be a relatively infrequent occurrence compared to just adding nodes to a set.
The only potential solution I see that is cleaner is adding a longer Timeout for the connection to be formed in the configuration. You can find how to do this in the mongodb documentation here: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Connections
The flag of interest for you is likely connectTimeoutMS
CentOS 5.5
I have a web application running on a server and it needs access to another CentOS server's file system running in the same network (via private IP). After doing a bunch of googling it looks like mounting the drive via NFS is a good way to go, but I'm not finding any good step by step instructions on how to go about it. I've read the man docs on the mount command and read some docs on the CentOS wiki as well but I feel like I'm missing something. Here is what I'm trying
mount -t nfs my.ip.address:/somePath /somePath/mount
I keep getting a 'no route to host' error but I can ping the server just fine. I'm guessing that I am possibly missing a port I need to open or something, but again, can't find information that makes sense to a non-sysadmin like myself.
Thanks for any help.
I ran across this, followed it step by step, and now I'm up and running!
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/centos-fedora-rhel-nfs-v4-configuration/