DISTRIB_ID in trafficserver script

[Nick Kew <ni...@apache.org>]

I stumbled across a problem of "trafficserver start" exiting at line 217.

Turns out the culprit was an empty DISTRIB_ID.  Looking at the top
of the script I see that's set in an idiosyncratic-looking way:

if [ -e /etc/SuSE-release ]; then
  DISTRIB_ID="suse"
elif [ -e /etc/fedora-release ]; then
  DISTRIB_ID="fedora"
elif [ -e /etc/redhat-release ]; then

... [more of same]

So for an amazon-hosted node I was able to work around it with
a symlink from /etc/system-release to /etc/redhat-release.

Is there a reason for this test, or is it just a historic legacy?

-- 
Nick Kew

Re: DISTRIB_ID in trafficserver script

[Igor Galić <i....@brainsware.org>]

----- Original Message -----
> I stumbled across a problem of "trafficserver start" exiting at line
> 217.
> 
> Turns out the culprit was an empty DISTRIB_ID.  Looking at the top
> of the script I see that's set in an idiosyncratic-looking way:
> 
> if [ -e /etc/SuSE-release ]; then
>   DISTRIB_ID="suse"
> elif [ -e /etc/fedora-release ]; then
>   DISTRIB_ID="fedora"
> elif [ -e /etc/redhat-release ]; then
> 
> ... [more of same]
> 
> So for an amazon-hosted node I was able to work around it with
> a symlink from /etc/system-release to /etc/redhat-release.
> 
> Is there a reason for this test, or is it just a historic legacy?

In theory, it's so we know how to start ATS on that OS/distro/platform.
In practice, `uname -s` should probably suffice. Maybe.
 
> --
> Nick Kew

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