Can't get mongrel to work as daemon

Server Mongrel
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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?

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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.

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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

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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.