Install solr as service (init script)

Tuesday 14 July 2009 2:59:12 am

Hi,

I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. I tried the init script which is delivered with ezfind 2.0, but it is not working.

I followed the instructions in the solr file and edited the path to solr and java in this file.
When I tried to start the script I got no error message. But the server is not running.

Is there anything I still have to customize? Any other idea where I have to look?

Thanks in advance for answers.

Tuesday 14 July 2009 4:17:43 am

Thanks for your answer.

The shell script solr.sh is executable. When I run the script, it gives me the error message that the JAVA_HOME environment is not set. When I added the JAVA_HOME variable to the script, then the script is wokring. The server starts.

I looked into the solr init script again, but I could not see any call to the solr.sh file.

Any other ideas?

Tuesday 14 July 2009 4:49:41 am

Looks like solr.sh is only for debian... the line in the redhat script that should start it is:

daemon --check $NAME --pidfile /var/run/solr.pid nohup java -jar start.jar > /dev/null 2>&1 &

Could be possible that java is not in root's $PATH or something like that.

You might want to temporarily remove the > /dev/null 2>&1 to see if there is an error that's being suppressed.

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Thursday 16 July 2009 6:49:11 am

Thanks for your help. But I could not solve the problem until now.

It looks like that the row with the daemon call ist not working. I got a return value of zero, what is normaly OK. But there is no java in the process list and the solr pid file is empty.

Is there anything else I can try?