Xen Orchestra on Ubuntu 15.10 - Complete installation instructions

DustinB3403

This appears to work:

 kill $(ps aux | grep "node bin/xo-server" | grep -v grep | cut -d' ' -f8)

Confirmed.

DustinB3403

So this script should work.

Going to update my script and test.

DustinB3403

I'm going to modify the update script to reboot immediately when done updating, 2 minutes just feels way to long.

dafyre

Or better yet... now that we know how...

Stop the XO server... do the updates... start the XO Server... no reboot required.

DustinB3403

Reboots are kind of critical to know if anything is broken.....

dafyre

@DustinB3403 said:

Reboots are kind of critical to know if anything is broken.....

Only in Windows, lol.

DustinB3403

And since we're using cron to start the job, it's more easily handled there.

Uptime of weeks or months is no good for any system.

Regardless of how awesome it is.

scottalanmiller

@dafyre said:

@DustinB3403 said:

Reboots are kind of critical to know if anything is broken.....

Only in Windows, lol.

Any system that is getting properly patched.

http://www.smbitjournal.com/2011/02/why-we-reboot-servers/

Danp

Can't seem to get the startup script working with cron. Entered the command:

chmod +x xo-start.sh

What did I miss?

coliver

@Danp Did you run it with sudo?

DustinB3403

@Danp said:

Can't seem to get the startup script working with cron. Entered the command:
chmod +x xo-start.sh
What did I miss?

That just makes the script executable.

dafyre

Try it from /etc/rc.local ?

Danp

@coliver said:

@Danp Did you run it with sudo?

Yes, current octal on the file is 0755 so it would appear that the executable flag is set for everyone.

@DustinB3403 said:

That just makes the script executable.

No kidding?!

I followed your earlier guide, but it isn't working for some reason.

DustinB3403

@Danp where did you put the xo-start.sh script? It should be in /etc

DustinB3403

and what is in

/etc/crontab

?

And this should be what is in "my" /etc/crontab

Danp

Everything looks the same to me. <shrug>

Tried running grep CRON /var/log/syslog but don't see anything useful.

Danp

Works as expected when I run cd /etc && ./xo-start.sh from the command line.

DustinB3403

Can anyone else with XO running give the above steps a try and let us know if you're having the same issue?

@Danp sorry I'm just not sure what might be off without more details...

travisdh1

@DustinB3403 said:

Can anyone else with XO running give the above steps a try and let us know if you're having the same issue?

@Danp sorry I'm just not sure what might be off without more details...

Try adding the XO installation directory to the PATH statement in that crontab. I'm betting it doesn't know where to run things due to the limited environment the system crontabs run in.

scottalanmiller

@travisdh1 said:

@DustinB3403 said:

Can anyone else with XO running give the above steps a try and let us know if you're having the same issue?

@Danp sorry I'm just not sure what might be off without more details...

Try adding the XO installation directory to the PATH statement in that crontab. I'm betting it doesn't know where to run things due to the limited environment the system crontabs run in.

If it needs the PATH, then the command is wrong. It should not know where it is.