Hello
Many apologies that there hasn't been any follow up. Can you please
turn this into a JIRA if this is still an issue.
Thanks
Joe
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Nicholas Hughes
<nicholasmhughes.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ryan,
>
> I ran into a similar issue, in that our security policies generally don't
> allow sudo for much... even for the root account in an init script. I
> didn't want to hack up the nifi.sh script too much, so I just popped out a
> quick systemd unit file:
>
> [Unit]
> Description=Apache NiFi
> After=syslog.target network.target
>
> [Service]
> User=nifi
> Type=simple
> ExecStart=/bin/java -cp /opt/nifi/conf/:/opt/nifi/lib/bootstrap/* -Xms12m
> -Xmx24m
> -Dorg.apache.nifi.bootstrap.config.file=/opt/nifi/conf/bootstrap.conf
> org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi start
> ExecStop=/bin/java -cp /opt/nifi/conf/:/opt/nifi/lib/bootstrap/* -Xms12m
> -Xmx24m
> -Dorg.apache.nifi.bootstrap.config.file=/opt/nifi/conf/bootstrap.conf
> org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi stop
> Restart=always
> RestartSec=360
>
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>
>
> Paths may have to be changed depending on your installation. It's not too
> fancy, but it seems to work just fine for EL7.
>
> -Nick
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Ryan H <rhendrickson.w...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to get the 0.7.0 NiFi to start on boot on linux/centos 7.
>> During all this, I've noticed 0.6.1 doesn't quite work either, left some
>> notes at the bottom about that.
>>
>> *For 0.7.0:*
>> *I followed the modified install commands for the nifi.sh script:*
>> I untar'd it in:
>> #/opt/nifi/current -> nifi-0.7.0-SNAPSHOT
>>
>> I followed these steps:
>> ##Edited the nifi.sh script for the SCRIPT_DIR issue.
>> #/opt/nifi/current/bin/nifi.sh install
>> *#chkconfig nifi on <--- Turn on for boot 2345 run levels*
>> #service nifi start
>>
>> NiFi is now started.
>>
>> I reboot the box.
>>
>> *NiFi does not start.* There's no logs in /var/log/messages or
>> /opt/nifi/current/logs indicating why. (This script should probably log
>> someplace)
>>
>> *Why?*
>> The current script has a command that starts as:
>> #cd ${NIFI_HOME} && sudo -u ${run_as} <rest-of-command> &
>>
>> The sudo part is omitted if there is no ${run_as} user defined. This works
>> for starting the service by hand. However, if this script is set to start
>> on boot with a ${run_as} user, in this case using chkconfig, it will
>> silently fail when starting on boot because of the "sudo" part. Not sure
>> why "sudo" isn't well liked in CentOS 7 in a service script.
>>
>> *How we fixed it:*
>> Fixed by structuring the command like this the nifi.sh script like this:
>>
>> Old Command:
>> ## RUN_NIFI_CMD="cd "\""${NIFI_HOME}"\"" && ${sudo_cmd_prefix}
>> "\""${JAVA}"\"" -cp "\""${BOOTSTRAP_CLASSPATH}"\"" -Xms12m -Xmx24m
>> ${BOOTSTRAP_DIR_PARAMS} org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi"
>>
>> Put it into the if's:
>> #if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then
>> # RUN_NIFI_CMD="su -c "\""cd "\""${NIFI_HOME}"\"" && "\""${JAVA}"\""
>> -cp "\""${BOOTSTRAP_CLASSPATH}"\"" -Xms12m -Xmx24m ${BOOTSTRAP_DIR_PARAMS}
>> org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi $@ &"\"" ${run_as}"
>> # (eval $RUN_NIFI_CMD)
>> #else
>> # RUN_NIFI_CMD="su -c "\""cd "\""${NIFI_HOME}"\"" && "\""${JAVA}"\""
>> -cp "\""${BOOTSTRAP_CLASSPATH}"\"" -Xms12m -Xmx24m ${BOOTSTRAP_DIR_PARAMS}
>> org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi $@"\"" ${run_as}"
>> # (eval $RUN_NIFI_CMD)
>> #fi
>>
>>
>> It now starts on boot.
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>
>> *Logging in this file:*
>> * I created a /var/log/nifi dir as root
>> * I started piping echo statements to "tee -a /var/log/nifi/init.log"
>> ** *Example: #echo "Attempting to start NiFi" | tee -a
>> /var/log/nifi/init.log
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>
>> *For 0.6.1:*
>> *I followed the standard install commands for the nifi.sh script.*
>>
>> I untar'd it in:
>> #/opt/nifi/current -> nifi-0.7.0-SNAPSHOT
>>
>> I followed these steps:
>> #/opt/nifi/current/bin/nifi.sh install
>> *#chkconfig nifi on <--- Turn on for boot 2345 run levels*
>> #service nifi start
>>
>> NiFi is now started.
>>
>> I reboot the box.
>>
>> *NiFi does not start.* There's no logs in /var/log/messages or
>> /opt/nifi/current/logs indicating why. (This script should probably log
>> someplace)
>>
>> *Why?*
>> The current script has a command that starts as:
>> #cd ${NIFI_HOME} && sudo -u ${run_as} <rest-of-command> &
>>
>> The sudo part is omitted if there is no ${run_as} user defined. This works
>> for starting the service by hand. However, if this script is set to start
>> on boot with a ${run_as} user, in this case using chkconfig, it will
>> silently fail when starting on boot because of the "sudo" part. Not sure
>> why "sudo" isn't well liked in CentOS 7 in a service script.
>>
>> *How we fixed it:*
>> Fixed by structuring the command like this:
>> #su -c "cd ${NIFI_HOME} && <rest-of-command> &" ${run_as}
>>
>> This works when starting on boot if you have a ${run_as} user defined,
>> though not sure of the behavior if there is no ${run_as} user defined or if
>> the ${run_as} user is root.
>> --------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan
>>
