All,
My app. requires memcached, and I’d like to build any necessary
restarting of the memcached daemon into my site startup. (I already
have my script executing as part of a deploy, but I’d like to
“bulletproof” it more if possible).
I wrote a script which will restart memcached if it isn’t there.
My problem is I need to reliably invoke it whenever my production site
is started.
I’m using Apache with FCGI (and yes, I will be migrating to Mongrel
soon). I attempted to use production.rb/environment.rb to handle this,
but I couldn’t get the system calls to work, and anyway, I don’t really
want multiple Ruby processes (either FCGI or Mongrel) competing to start
the memcached daemon anyway.
So I’d really like to hook the startup script I wrote into the startup
process for Apache. Is there a natural hook for this that Apache
provides where I can issue arbitrary commands as part of starting up the
httpd daemon? Or do I need to customize the apachectl script or
something equally invasive?
Thanks,
Wes