[jira] Commented: (CASSANDRA-20) Daemonization of cassandra nodes

["Jonathan Ellis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-20:
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I am not an expert on these things but I rather prefer the approach described here: http://barelyenough.org/blog/2005/03/java-daemon/

to jsvc which requires a c module.  (My bad, I didn't realize that at first.)

simplifying things, I don't think we need to worry about the shutdown stuff b/c cassandra is practically a poster boy for what should be crash-only software (http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/candea/candea_html/index.html) -- it needs to be able to survive crashes, power loss, etc., so adding a "clean" shutdown hook seems to be begging for the recovery code to not get exercised enough.  so just killing it as in the existing bin/shutdown seems ok.

(in the old google tree the clean-shutdown code was broken anyway.  dunno about this new tree.)

> Daemonization of cassandra nodes
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-20
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-20
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Eric Evans
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: commons-daemon.patch
>
>
> Support for daemonization (dropping privileges, closing descriptors, forking, etc) would be nice. 

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