[erlang-questions] starting a release with nohup

Ivan Uemlianin ivan@REDACTED
Sat Jul 7 12:27:20 CEST 2012


Dear Matthew

Thanks for your comment.  I didn't think those arguments would work the 
the release script (which is a shell script, and which I'd rather leave 
alone I think).

Best wishes

Ivan

On 05/07/2012 15:16, Matthew Evans wrote:
>
> I'm using it all the time.
> Not sure if you are doing it, but I set the "-detached" and "-noshell" options to the Erlang "erl" command.
> i.e:
> nohup erl -detached -noshell
>
> Matt
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 14:40:34 +0100
>> From: ivan@REDACTED
>> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
>> Subject: [erlang-questions] starting a release with nohup
>>
>> Dear All
>>
>> We have a web application which is a hybrid of python and erlang. As
>> part of the deployment infrastructure we can restart the application
>> over ssh, using a command like
>>
>> nohup webapp start
>>
>> "webapp start" just calls "pythonapp start" and "erlangapp start".
>> Although nohup isn't necessary for the erlang app, it seems to be
>> necessary for the python app.
>>
>> Recently we packaged the erlang app as a release, with start and stop
>> functions. So, "erlangapp start" calls
>> "/path/to/erlangapp/rel/eappnode/bin/eappnode start".
>>
>> The release set up is much nicer than before, *but* it doesn't seem to
>> want to play with nohup. Running the above returns an erlang ebadf
>> error message (see below).
>>
>> Is there a way to start a release using nohup?
>>
>> With thanks and best wishes
>>
>> Ivan
>>
>>
>> ** error messages
>>
>> {error_logger,{{2012,7,4},{9,14,46}},supervisor_report,
>>
>> [{supervisor,{<0.21.0>,user_sup}},{errorContext,child_terminated},{reason,ebadf},{offender,[{pid,<0.22.0>},{mod,user_sup}]}]}
>>
>> {error_logger,{{2012,7,4},{9,14,46}},
>> "** Generic server ~p terminating \n
>> ** Last message in was ~p~n
>> ** When Server state == ~p~n
>> ** Reason for termination == ~n
>> ** ~p~n",
>> [<0.21.0>,
>> {'EXIT',<0.22.0>,ebadf},
>> {state,user_sup,undefined,<0.22.0>,{<0.21.0>,user_sup}},
>> ebadf]}
>>
>> {error_logger,{{2012,7,4},{9,14,46}},crash_report,
>>
>> [[{initial_call,{supervisor_bridge,user_sup,['Argument__1']}},{pid,<0.21.0>},{registered_name,[]},{error_info,{exit,ebadf,[{gen_server,terminate,6},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}},{ancestors,[kernel_sup,<0.9.0>]},{messages,[]},{links,[<0.10.0>]},{dictionary,[]},{trap_exit,true},{status,running},{heap_size,987},{stack_size,24},{reductions,206}],[]]}
>>
>> {error_logger,{{2012,7,4},{9,14,46}},supervisor_report,
>>
>> [{supervisor,{local,kernel_sup}},{errorContext,child_terminated},{reason,ebadf},{offender,[{pid,<0.21.0>},{name,user},{mfargs,{user_sup,start,[]}},{restart_type,temporary},{shutdown,2000},{child_type,supervisor}]}]}
>>
>>
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>> Llaisdy
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>>
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