"start-stop-daemon: unable to stat"
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You are passing the command name and the command arguments as the command to execute. start-stop-daemon
looks for a command named /usr/bin/tail -250f /var/log/apache2/error.log
which does not exist of course. Instead you want to call something like (unimportant parts left out):
APP_DIR="/usr/bin"
APP_BIN="tail"
APP_ARGS="-250f /var/log/apache2/error.log"
start-stop-daemon --start --exec "$APP_DIR/$APP_BIN" -- $APP_ARGS
(note the -- between the command and its arguments)
Author by
Florence V. Lee
Updated on June 17, 2022Comments
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Florence V. Lee over 1 year
i have the following start-stop-script:
NAME="examplestartstop" PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/node/bin" LOGFILE="/var/log/$NAME/start-stop-daemon.log" APP_DIR="/usr/bin" APP_BIN="tail -250f /var/log/apache2/error.log" USER="minecraft" GROUP="minecraft" # Include functions set -e . /lib/lsb/init-functions start() { echo "Starting '$NAME'... " start-stop-daemon --start --chuid "$USER:$GROUP" --background --make-pidfile --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec "$APP_DIR/$APP_BIN" $LOGFILE || true echo "done" }
When i try to run the script i get the following output:
$ ./test start Starting 'examplestartstop'... start-stop-daemon: unable to stat /usr/bin/tail -250f /var/log/apache2/error.log (No such file or directory) done
What did i done wrong on the
$APP_DIR/$APP_BIN
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Manu Viswam almost 10 yearswhen i do this i get an error start-stop-daemon: unrecognized option '---250f'
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scai almost 10 yearsDid you miss the space between
--
and$APP_ARGS
? And please start a new question for your issue.