Plugin is not running with the Daemon

[asciifaceman]

Hello,

I have the plugin successfully running when manually called via python on the command line, however it does not appear to be coming on and running with the newrelic-daemon.

Could I be missing something not documented?

[asciifaceman]

So after quite a bit of digging and experimentation, I've found this application quite difficult to daemonize properly on ScientificLinux. What technique does a0labs use?

[ybriffa]

Hello,

You can have different solutions :

• use a nohup to launch it in background an detach it when you'll quit the terminal
• use a crontab like "@reboot /usr/bin/python /path/to/bin"
• put it in your /etc/init.d

Actually I don't really know your OS, ScientificLinux, never heard about it, and every solutions above work on debian, so I'd bet at least the 2 first would on your OS, not sure about the last one.

Best,

[asciifaceman]

I am going to try upstart, nohup isn't an enterprise option and we want it running as a service.

I am going to try writing an upstart job for it.

Are you guys open to forks and merge-backs? Potentially a ./daemonization directory for different solutions?

[ybriffa]

Alright, yes we can do it. I have also some scripts in order to set it up on debian, I just need to comit them

[asciifaceman]

Upstart has been working absolutely wonderfully

PROD:[root@redacted init]# status agent-a0labs-newrelic
agent-a0labs-newrelic start/running, process 17522

I am working on a few commits and cleaning it up and then will open a PR for you to review and consider.

note: upstart should be cross-platform for almost all modern linux systems as well with no dependencies