foxycoder chef-logstash dependency doesn't work on centos because of upstart

[dtest]

The current logstash cookbook that we rely on in bb_external is https://github.com/foxycoder/chef-logstash

The readme claims that it should work in other platforms but it only has been tested in ubuntu/debian systems.

The problem is the startup script relies on 'upstart', which as far as I know is Ubuntu only (without perhaps depending on the upstart cookbook: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#id416

I'm not sure we should be requiring upstart jobs, but if we don't find a different provider, we should at least fork the foxycoder repo with any fixes to allow init.d script. Or systemd as RHEL7 and Ubuntu seem to be going that route: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316

[dtest]

Btw, the error message I get with the startup script is:

==> mha_master: Error executing action `restart` on resource 'service[logstash]'
==> mha_master: ================================================================================
==> mha_master:
==> mha_master: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed
==> mha_master: ------------------------------------
==> mha_master: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
==> mha_master: ---- Begin output of /sbin/start logstash ----
==> mha_master: STDOUT:
==> mha_master: STDERR: start: Unknown job: logstash
==> mha_master: ---- End output of /sbin/start logstash ----
==> mha_master: Ran /sbin/start logstash returned 1
==> mha_master:
==> mha_master: Resource Declaration:
==> mha_master: ---------------------
==> mha_master: # In /tmp/vagrant-chef/2acc2ee08afd057d4a815ed72ba085b1/cookbooks/logstash/recipes/default.rb
==> mha_master:
==> mha_master:  51: service "logstash" do
==> mha_master:  52:   supports :restart => true, :reload => false
==> mha_master:  53:   action :nothing
==> mha_master:  54:   provider Chef::Provider::Service::Upstart
==> mha_master:  55: end
==> mha_master:  56:
==> mha_master:
==> mha_master: Compiled Resource:
==> mha_master: ------------------
==> mha_master: # Declared in /tmp/vagrant-chef/2acc2ee08afd057d4a815ed72ba085b1/cookbooks/logstash/recipes/default.rb:51:in `from_file'
==> mha_master:
==> mha_master: service("logstash") do
==> mha_master:   provider Chef::Provider::Service::Upstart
==> mha_master:   action [:nothing]
==> mha_master:   supports {:restart=>true, :reload=>false}
==> mha_master:   retries 0
==> mha_master:   retry_delay 2
==> mha_master:   default_guard_interpreter :default
==> mha_master:   service_name "logstash"
==> mha_master:   pattern "logstash"
==> mha_master:   declared_type :service
==> mha_master:   cookbook_name :logstash
==> mha_master:   recipe_name "default"
==> mha_master: end
==> mha_master:

[jmetzmeier]

What version of CentOS? CentOS 6 also uses upstart, but it's an older version that's missing many features.

[dtest]

I am running CentOS 6.4

[jmetzmeier]

That makes sense. Looking at the error again, the system that produced the error is running upstart. The error is Upstart's poor way of saying the job file has a syntax error. We are probably using an upstart feature that is not present in the CentOS 6 version of upstart. We are providing the job file in bb_external and I think it's the "setuid" and "setgid" options that don't exist in the CentOS 6 upstart.

[alexlovelltroy]

can someone verify that changing the setuid and setgid options works for both Centos 6 and our ubuntu targets? @jmetzmeier ?