Forum: Mongrel can't get mongrel to work as daemon

I'm a mongrel newbie and a linux newbie.  I have two CENTOS 5 servers.
On server A, my app works fine, with mongrel in daemon mode.  On server
B, it works fine if I just say mongrel_rails start, but if I add -d, it
doesn't run.  Suggestions?

Ken Bryant wrote:
> I'm a mongrel newbie and a linux newbie.  I have two CENTOS 5 servers.
> On server A, my app works fine, with mongrel in daemon mode.  On server
> B, it works fine if I just say mongrel_rails start, but if I add -d, it
> doesn't run.  Suggestions?


Ack!  I found it.  Sorry to bother you all.

I'm on Red Hat rhel 5.  Apache 2.2, Mongrel 1.1.5, Ruby 1.8.6, Rails 
2.3.5

When I run mongrel with -d it crashes the first time it's accessed.  It 
doesn't return anything.  It doesn't log anything in development.log or 
production.log depending on how I run it.  There is absolutely nothing 
interesting in the mongrel or apache logs even with -B.

I recently upgraded to Rails 2.3.5.  That's when it stopped working.
I tried going to 2.3.8, but that was worse.  I tried going back to 
mongrel 1.1.4, but that did the same thing.

I can run mongrel in the background then disown it, but that's a huge 
pain to restart a cluster of mongrels that way.  I've been googling for 
days and this is the only post that even comes close.  Of course, the 
solution wasn't posted...

Thanks,
Rick

> Ack!  I found it.  Sorry to bother you all.

What was the solution? I have the same problem: can run my Rails site 
perfectly without the -d (daemon) option, but with -d everything looks 
fine but the thread just dies.

My setup:
Rails 2.3.5
mongrel 1.1.5

Thanks!

Tom.