I'm trying to get a daemon to work on debian using daemons gem. I installed daemons via gems and I'm running version 1.0.3.
I used daemon_generator from
I created a daemon called test and ran it on OSX with no problem, meaning that
./script/daemons start and ./script/daemons stop
both work fine.
I moved it to a debian system, modifed test.rb to use the production environment, and I can't get it to work. I've tried a bunch of things. It doesn't seem to start reliably
On the debian system ./script/daemons start
sometimes works. I see the daemon running, I see the monitor daemon running, and messages are going into the production log file.
If I try to stop it with
./script/daemons stop
the test daemon stops but the monitor does *not* stop. Then I get a log file for the test daemon with
# Logfile created on Thu Dec 07 15:33:33 -0800 2006 by logger.rb/1.5.2.9 failed to allocate memory stack level too deep exception reentered uninitialized constant Rails no such file to load -- rails.rb No such file or directory - [snip]/log/test.rb.pid no such file to load -- openssl no such file to load -- http-access2 no such file to load -- xmlscan/scanner no such file to load -- xml/parser no such file to load -- tmail/scanner_c.so no such file to load -- tmail/base64.so test.rb.log (END)
Here is lib/daemons/test.rb: #!/usr/bin/env ruby
#You might want to change this ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= "production"
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../../config/environment"
$running = true; Signal.trap("TERM") do $running = false end
while($running) do
# Replace this with your code ActiveRecord::Base.logger << "This daemon is still running at #{Time.now}.\n"
sleep 10 end
and here is the ctl file:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'rubygems' require "daemons" require 'yaml' require 'erb' require 'active_support'
options = YAML.load( ERB.new( IO.read( File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../../config/daemons.yml" )).result).with_indifferent_access options[:dir_mode] = options[:dir_mode].to_sym
Daemons.run File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/test.rb', options # this is a comment
Thank you