[jira] [Resolved] (CASSANDRA-6239) pidfile is never written, "/etc/init.d/cassandra stop" fails

["Brandon Williams (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6239?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Brandon Williams resolved CASSANDRA-6239.
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    Resolution: Duplicate

> pidfile is never written, "/etc/init.d/cassandra stop" fails
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>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6239
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6239
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Packaging
>            Reporter: Faidon Liambotis
>
> The init script tries, via start-stop-daemon, to write a pidfile to /var/run/cassandra/cassandra.pid. /var/run/cassandra doesn't exist (righftully so, /var/run can be a tmpfs), so the init script has this stanza above the start-stop-daemon invocation:
> {code:none}
>     [ -e `dirname "PIDFILE"` ] || \
>         install -d -ocassandra -gcassandra -m750 `dirname $PIDFILE`
> {code}
> The first line is missing the dollar sign before the PIDFILE variable (i.e. it should be 'dirname "$PIDFILE"'). This has the effect that "dirname PIDFILE" is called, with the PIDFILE as a literal, which always returns "." as the output, which always exists, so the "install" call never gets executed, the directory never gets created and start-stop-daemon is unable to write the pidfile.
> The pidfile is never written and "/etc/init.d/cassandra stop" never works.
> Adding a $ before PIDFILE fixes the issue. This has been tested.



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