[ic] launchd?

[David Christensen]

Jeff wrote:

>>> Is anyone running interchange on OS X Server? I am using 10.4.11  
>>> server and can't seem to get the new launchd to start my daemon  
>>> when the system restarts.
>>>
>>> I can start it manually, but when I start it with a script, the  
>>> daemon starts, but the catalogs won't run.
>>
>>
>> Do you get any sort of error message with this?  And are you  
>> running this as a system-level launchd job, or under a specific  
>> user?  Can you provide your plist for the startup?  In particular,  
>> I'm wondering if something in your environment is not yet set up  
>> when starting up at boot time.

> I'm running it as a LaunchAgent.  I have the plist in "/Library/ 
> LaunchAgents/"
>
> I can start it with "launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/ 
> com.icdevgroup.interchange.plist" It starts without any errors but  
> when I restart it doesn't start.
>
> This is the output when I start it:
> xserve-g4:~ interch$ launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/ 
> com.icdevgroup.interchange.plist
> xserve-g4:~ interch$ The Interchange server was not running (/Users/ 
> interch/interchange/etc/interchange.pid).
> Vend::Payment::TestPayment payment module loaded
> Low traffic settings.
> Calling UI......UI is loaded...
> Interchange V5.7.3
> Running with old signals.
> Configuring catalog DTD...Using MySQL, DSN=dbi:mysql:test_DTD...done.
> Configuring catalog test...Using MySQL,  
> DSN=dbi:mysql:test_test...done.
> Interchange server started in UNIX mode(s) (process id 369)

Has the mysql daemon started at this point in the system startup  
procedure?  IIRC, there's a way to add an explicit service dependency  
in your LaunchAgent plist to indicate that you need other services  
running.  That would definitely lead to catalog loading errors/issues.

> This is my plist:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd 
> ">
> <plist version="1.0">
> <dict>
>        <key>Label</key>
>        <string>com.icdevgroup.interchange</string>
>        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
>        <array>
>                <string>/Users/interch/interchange/bin/interchange</ 
> string>
>                <string>-r</string>


The "-r" flag is used to restart the IC daemon, although it should  
start afresh with only a warning that the previous instance was not  
running.  You can add the interch user's ~/bin to your path if you  
want to allow easier restart of the IC server (i.e., if this was an  
intentional behavior).

>        </array>
>        <key>OnDemand</key>
>        <true/>
>        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
>        <true/>

I don't know that this will cause issues, but there's no reason to  
have it run on demand.  Since IC is a daemon, it doesn't make sense to  
have launchd doing anything but the initial launch.  Also, no port or  
other identifier is set to trigger the on-demanded-ness, so I don't  
think it'd end up doing anything anyway.  :-)

>        <key>UserName</key>
>        <string>interch</string>
> </dict>
> </plist>
>

Regards,

David
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David Christensen
End Point Corporation
david at endpoint.com