Linux launcher service problems

[nrusch]

The current script for controlling the launcher service on Linux seems to have a logic problem relating to permissions, specifically in this line:

/bin/su - $LAUNCHERSERVICEUSERNAME -c "$DEADLINEBIN/deadlinelauncher -nogui & echo \$! > $PIDFILE" &> /dev/null

It’s trying to create the $PIDFILE as the user running the launcher rather than as root, so it always fails, and thus never thinks the launcher is running.

[rrussell]

Thanks! Someone else had recently brought this to our attention, as well as some CentOS related issues with the init script as well. We’re addressing these issues in Deadline 7.

Cheers,
Ryan

[nrusch]

Don’t suppose there’s any chance this fix could be rolled into 6.2.1…

[rrussell]

We’ll take a look!