[wildfly-dev] Wildfly start-up as service script depends on console log to determinate start result

[Brian Stansberry]

How does EAP 5 deal with this? IIRC disabling console logging is not 
something new in EAP 6.

On 6/11/15 6:29 PM, Chao Wang wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. Please see in-line below
>
> On 06/11/2015 12:44 AM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
>> A couple thoughts:
>>
>> 1) Looking at wildfly-init-redhat.sh at least, I don't see how that
>> check is actually testing for successful startup. It looks like it's
>> just trying to delay start() returning for a while, max 30 secs.
>>
>> So, what purpose is this fulfilling?
> My bad about issue background. It's actually an case in EAP 6 (not yet
> in wildfly). EAP 6.x script has launched state like:
> https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-eap/blob/6.4.x/build/src/main/resources/bin/init.d/jboss-as-standalone.sh#L110
> (not in wildfly's script). Also, console log handler has been removed
> only in EAP full-ha mode long time ago due to performance
> concern.(wildfly keeps it for the moment). This leads to issue in
> bz1224170 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224170>.
> That's why I try to seek an better option than current behavior from
> wildfly.
>>
>> 2) How does other software solve this problem? If it's solving a valid
>> problem, it seems like there would be a typical solution.
> I have checked some other application servers, most of them let users
> themselves to write a script to run as service for their OS. Geronimo
> does provide a script, Although I did damage to its configuration file
> to make a fatal error, terminal output still displays "Server started".
> In fact, process does not event exist and detail error can be seen in
> log file.
>> On 6/9/15 8:59 AM, Chao Wang wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> The Wildfly start-up as service scripts wildfly-init-redhat.sh and
>>> wildfly-init-debian.sh currently depend on a grep action of key message
>>> 'WFLYSRV0025:' in console log to determinate whether service start is
>>> successful. The log message indication is accurate, however, it's not
>>> that robust since user can always remove console handler from logging
>>> subsystem. I have opened a WFCORE enhancement jira
>>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-747  for it.
>>>
>>> For the moment, I have tried three options, they're all not that perfect
>>> to implement
>>>
>>> 1. Stay with exact log message, users need to define their jboss log
>>> directory such as $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/log/server.log for standalone
>>> and $JBOSS_HOME/domain/log/host-controller.log for domain instead of
>>> searching in console log. This is more like another workaround since it
>>> is also volatile once we update log message in future release.(EAP has
>>> 'JBAS015874:')
>>>
>>> 2. Use service pid, this is not precise because a long start-up can
>>> crash in the last second. It needs to wait a suitable seconds before
>>> checking pid existence. and still it can not avoid fake success in rare
>>> case just before timeout.
>>>
>>> 3. Use read-attribute server-state through CLI connection as I did in
>>> Pull Request on Jira. This is declined as it is possible that
>>> authentication is required before connection. In such case, any  non
>>> encrypted password is not advised in configuration files.
>>>
>>> Therefore, I would like to listen for your opinions for them. Any other
>>> suggestion is certainly welcomed in mail or on jira.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Chao
>>>
>>>
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>>
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224170
>
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