Intro
ExoEdge is Exosite’s officially supported client to ExoSense.
There are several ways to make sure the edged process(es) on your gateway start on boot and keep them running.
Supervisor
The supervisord tool is handy because it makes sure your processes start on boot, stay running and it takes care of rotating the edged log file.
Install supervisord:
sudo su
apt-get install supervisor --yes
Define the edged config file for supervisord
echo '[program:edged]
command = edged -i /var/config/edged.ini -c /var/config/edged.json go
autostart = true
autorestart = true
stdout_logfile = /var/log/edged.log
stdout_logfile_maxbytes = 1MB
redirect_stderr = true
' > /etc/supervisor/conf.d/edged.conf
Reboot
reboot
or reload supervisord
supervisorctl reload
Your gateway will now start edged on boot as well as rotate its log file.
SysV
Copy this SysV Init Script onto your gateway and execute the following commands.
cp edged /etc/init.d/
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/edged
chown root:root /etc/init.d/edged
update-rc.d edged defaults 90 90
Now, make sure you set up your gateway to rotate the edged logfile.
echo '/var/log/edged.log {
rotate 3
maxsize 1M
}' >> /etc/logrotate.conf
crontab -l > tmp
echo -e '* * * * *\t\tlogrotate' >> tmp
crontab tmp
Now, crontab will call logrotate every minute to keep the edged log file at 1MB in size.
Summary
There are other ways to accomplish start-on-boot behavior and rotate log files. If you have other methods, please feel free to share them and/or comment on how these might be improved.
Thanks!
~Will Charlton