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On 03/06/11 09:31, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 05.03.2011 23:47, schrieb Jake Moe: |
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>> I'm currently trying to write a simple initscript to run |
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>> minecraft-server on one of my boxes. I've looked at the ebuild provided |
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>> via java-overlay, but it turns out it uses baselayout 2, and I'm not |
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>> ready to go down that upgrade path on this particular box just yet. |
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>> |
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>> So far, I've managed to get a simple start() function written, which |
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>> kinda-sorta "works"; it will start the server, but there are two problems: |
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>> 1) The "server" was written to stay interactive on a console, so you can |
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>> manage it from there. As such, the process never exits, so the |
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>> initscript gets stuck on "starting" |
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>> 2) There is nowhere in the server config file to specify where it writes |
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>> it's data files. So when I run this from my initscript, it seems to |
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>> default to the root directory, and I can't figure out how to tell it to |
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>> use something else as a working directory. |
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>> So far, I've got this: |
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>> |
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>> depend() { |
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>> need bootmisc localmount net |
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>> } |
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>> |
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>> start() { |
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>> einfo "Starting Minecraft Server" |
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>> cd /usr/local/games/minecraft-server |
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>> start-stop-daemon --start --make-pidfile --pidfile |
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>> /var/run/minecraft-server.pid \ |
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>> --exec /usr/bin/java -- -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar |
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>> /usr/local/games/minecraft-server/minecraft_server.jar nogui |
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>> eend $? |
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>> } |
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>> |
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>> Do any of the experts here know a way out of my dilemma? |
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>> Jake Moe |
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>> |
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> You already know start-stop-daemon, good. Parameter --background will |
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> force the program to detach. That solves your first problem. |
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> --chdir should solve your second problem. You should also consider |
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> --user and --group to drop root privileges. It also sets $HOME in case |
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> the server does not write to the working directory but the home directory. |
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> Hope this helps, |
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> Florian Philipp |
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I've tried "--background", but then it just fails. Adding "--verbose" |
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as well gives the following: |
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jmoe@aus8617 /etc/init.d $ sudo /etc/init.d/minecraft-server start |
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* Starting Minecraft Server |
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Starting /usr/bin/java... |
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Detaching to start /usr/bin/java...done. [ !! ] |
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Not the most helpful of messages. |
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For the second, of what is "--chdir" an argument? If I read the man |
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page for start-stop-daemon, it had "--chroot" and "--chuid", but no |
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"--chdir". I assume that "--chuid" can be used for changing the |
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user:group of the resulting process, but did you mean chroot instead of |
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chdir, or does that go with another command? |
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Also, when I say "the root directory", I don't mean root's home |
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directory (/root), I mean the root (/) directory. So I wind up with |
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config files in the root of my filesystem. Not good. |
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Jake Moe |
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