i have the following start-stop-script:
NAME="examplestartstop"
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/node/bin"
LOGFILE="/var/log/$NAME/start-stop-daemon.log"
APP_DIR="/usr/bin"
APP_BIN="tail -250f /var/log/apache2/error.log"
USER="minecraft"
GROUP="minecraft"
# Include functions
set -e
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
start() {
echo "Starting '$NAME'... "
start-stop-daemon --start --chuid "$USER:$GROUP" --background --make-pidfile --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec "$APP_DIR/$APP_BIN" $LOGFILE || true
echo "done"
}
When i try to run the script i get the following output:
$ ./test start
Starting 'examplestartstop'...
start-stop-daemon: unable to stat /usr/bin/tail -250f /var/log/apache2/error.log (No such file or directory)
done
What did i done wrong on the $APP_DIR/$APP_BIN
part?
You are passing the command name and the command arguments as the command to execute. start-stop-daemon
looks for a command named /usr/bin/tail -250f /var/log/apache2/error.log
which does not exist of course. Instead you want to call something like (unimportant parts left out):
APP_DIR="/usr/bin"
APP_BIN="tail"
APP_ARGS="-250f /var/log/apache2/error.log"
start-stop-daemon --start --exec "$APP_DIR/$APP_BIN" -- $APP_ARGS
(note the -- between the command and its arguments)