Hi there,
I am using the acts_as_ferret plugin version 0.4.4 with rails 2.3.4 and
am getting an error when try to start the Drb server.
The error appears to be that the unix_daemon cannot open the pid file.
However this only happens if I specify a config value:
pid_file: log/ferret_server.pid
in the ferret_server.yml. If I do not then the default values from the
ferret_server.rb file are used and the Drb server starts.
The error output is a follows:
/home/yellowpinky/my_project/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:53:in
initialize': No such file or directory - log/ferret_server.pi (Errno::ENOENT) from /home/matt/IdeaProjects/autoissimo/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:53:inopen’
from
/home/matt/IdeaProjects/autoissimo/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:53:in
write_pid_file' from /home/matt/IdeaProjects/autoissimo/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:12:inplatform_daemon’
from
/home/matt/IdeaProjects/autoissimo/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:41:in
fork' from /home/matt/IdeaProjects/autoissimo/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:41:insafefork’
from
/home/matt/IdeaProjects/autoissimo/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:11:in
platform_daemon' from /home/matt/IdeaProjects/autoissimo/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/ferret_server.rb:86:instart’
from ./…/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/server_manager.rb:53:in
send' from ./../vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/server_manager.rb:53 from ./ferret_server:4:inrequire’
from ./ferret_server:4
Having looked into this a little I can see that when a config value for
the pid file is defined in the ferret_server.yml file the unix_daemon.rb
gets passed the file path without the rails root appended. When no
value is specified within the ferret_server.yml file the default values
defined in ferret_server.rb are used and the unix_daemon.rb file gets
passed the full path and the server starts.
Any help greatly appreciated 
Apologies but there was a copy/paste error in the below stack trace:
No such file or directory - log/ferret_server.pi
should be:
No such file or directory - log/ferret_server.pid
I still have the error 
Matt Davis wrote:
Hi there,
I am using the acts_as_ferret plugin version 0.4.4 with rails 2.3.4 and
am getting an error when try to start the Drb server.
The error appears to be that the unix_daemon cannot open the pid file.
However this only happens if I specify a config value:
pid_file: log/ferret_server.pid
in the ferret_server.yml. If I do not then the default values from the
ferret_server.rb file are used and the Drb server starts.
The error output is a follows:
/home/yellowpinky/my_project/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:53:in
initialize': No such file or directory - log/ferret_server.pi (Errno::ENOENT) from /home/matt/IdeaProjects/autoissimo/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:53:inopen’
from
/home/matt/IdeaProjects/autoissimo/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:53:in
write_pid_file' from /home/matt/IdeaProjects/autoissimo/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:12:inplatform_daemon’
from
/home/matt/IdeaProjects/autoissimo/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:41:in
fork' from /home/matt/IdeaProjects/autoissimo/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:41:insafefork’
from
/home/matt/IdeaProjects/autoissimo/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/unix_daemon.rb:11:in
platform_daemon' from /home/matt/IdeaProjects/autoissimo/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/ferret_server.rb:86:instart’
from ./…/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/server_manager.rb:53:in
send' from ./../vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/server_manager.rb:53 from ./ferret_server:4:inrequire’
from ./ferret_server:4
Having looked into this a little I can see that when a config value for
the pid file is defined in the ferret_server.yml file the unix_daemon.rb
gets passed the file path without the rails root appended. When no
value is specified within the ferret_server.yml file the default values
defined in ferret_server.rb are used and the unix_daemon.rb file gets
passed the full path and the server starts.
Any help greatly appreciated
