We host solr on TOMCAT. To tackle reboot. We start solr by starting Tomcat in init and using a small script (called by the tomcat rc.d script) kept at the "../SOLRHOME" which does the CHDIR and starts catalina. This works perfectly for multiple indexes hosting too.
//Vikalp On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Jon Drukman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Rennie wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Jon Drukman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 1. How do people deal with having solr start when system reboots, manage >>> the log output, etc. Right now I run it manually under a unix 'screen' >>> command with a wrapper script that takes care of restarts when it >>> crashes. >>> That means that only my user can connect to it, and it can't happen when >>> the system starts up... But I don't see any other way to control the >>> process >>> easily. >>> >>> >> We use daemontools. Restarts solr whenever it goes down (for whatever >> reason) and directs output to a set of rotated log files. Very handy for >> a >> production environment. A bit tricky to set, but solid once you have it >> in >> place. >> >> http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html >> > > *facepalm* > > Duh. I should have thought of that. I'm a big fan of djbdns so I'm quite > familiar with daemontools. > > Thanks! > > -jsd- > >
