Cookbook doesn't work with 1.0.0RCx versions - Startup broken based on behavior change

[jensihnow]

With 1.... the startup behavior changes from default background to defualt foreground. Withour fix the cookbook will never finish because ES is running in the foreground, started by Chef.

We fixed this in our wrapper cookbook with replaced init template (elasticsearch.init.erb)
The fix for us is right now just the added -d, but that isn't a fix for all supportes operating systems:

su <%= node[:elasticsearch][:user] %> -c "ES_INCLUDE=$ES_INCLUDE /usr/local
/bin/elasticsearch -d -p $PIDFILE"

Looks like a switch (based on ES version) is needed to check if it's the old or the new startup behavior.

[karmi]

Yeah, I want to update the init script to the new behaviour once 1.0 GA is released.

[jgeiger]

:)