Init.d script for puppet-dashboard

Posted by on Friday, April 9, 2010 · 5 Comments 

In the #puppet IRC channel on freenode a user was asking if anyone knew of a init.d script for redhat/fedora for puppet-dashboard. I have a blog post about installing puppet-dashboard on Redhat/CentOS and I don’t think there is any init.d script out there. So time to write one

The first thing you will create is the following file

/etc/sysconfig/puppet-dashboard

This is a simple file with the following in it

#
# path to where you installed puppet dashboard
#
DASHBOARD_HOME=/opt/puppet-dashboard

You probably need to change the DASHBOARD_HOME variable to match what you have. Its the root of the project.

Now for the init.d script. Create the file called

/etc/init.d/puppet-dashboard

With the following contents in it.

#!/bin/bash
#
# Init script for puppet-dashboard
#
# chkconfig: - 85 15
# description: Init script for puppet-dashboard

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/puppet-dashboard ]; then
    . /etc/sysconfig/puppet-dashboard
fi

prog=puppet-dashboard
RETVAL=0

start() {
        echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
        /usr/bin/ruby ${DASHBOARD_HOME}/script/server >/dev/null 2>&1 &
        RETVAL=$?
        if [ $RETVAL = 0 ]
        then
            echo $! > /var/run/puppet-dashboard.pid
            echo_success
        else
            echo_failure
        fi 

        echo

        return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
        echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
        killproc puppet-dashboard
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f /var/run/puppet-dashboard.pid
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
    start)
        start
        ;;
    stop)
        stop
        ;;
    restart)
        stop
        start
        ;;
    *)
        echo $"Usage: $prog {start|stop|restart}"
        exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL

This might not be perfect but it works nicely

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Comments

5 Responses to “Init.d script for puppet-dashboard”
  1. Russell Miller says:
    April 9, 2010 at 4:15 pm

    Hi, I’m the guy who asked for the init script. We want to give you a token of appreciation. Please email me at the email address I provided for the blog post.

    Thanks.

    Reply
  2. Chris Brentano says:
    July 30, 2010 at 8:05 pm

    One addition.. status!

    Disclaimer: I stole this from /etc/init.d/puppet, with some minor tweaks.

    1. After the stop function, add the following function (around line 43):
    rh_status() {
    status | grep -q — ‘-p’ 2>/dev/null && statusopts=”-p $pidfile”
    status $statusopts puppet-dashboard
    RETVAL=$?
    return $RETVAL
    }

    2. Add a variable at the top called pidfile, i.e.:
    pidfile=/var/run/puppet-dashboard.pid

    3. Replace other occurences of /var/run/puppet-dashboard.pid with ${pidfile}

    4. Inside the case statement add a status option (around line 58):
    status)
    rh_status
    ;;

    5. Update the Usage string (around line 66):
    echo $”Usage: $prog {start|stop|status|restart}”

    6. Save, close, test:
    $ /etc/init.d/puppet-dashboard status
    puppet-dashboard (pid 16407) is running…

    Reply

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