From 81fe1912a8a6a5f7869a4d6df6c63813e9c1b259 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip O'Toole <philip@influxdb.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:54:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Use start-stop-daemon to launch, if available

This allows changing to the influxdb user if necessary.
---
 scripts/init.sh | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/init.sh b/scripts/init.sh
index 3550361de1..e2b6bce12b 100644
--- a/scripts/init.sh
+++ b/scripts/init.sh
@@ -27,18 +27,12 @@ if [ -r $DEFAULT ]; then
     source $DEFAULT
 fi
 
-if [ "x$NOFILES" == "x" ]; then
-    NOFILES=0
-fi
-
-if [ $NOFILES -le 0 ]; then
-    NOFILES=65536
-fi
-
 if [ "x$STDOUT" == "x" ]; then
     STDOUT=/dev/null
 fi
 
+OPEN_FILE_LIMIT=65536
+
 function pidofproc() {
     if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then
         echo "Expected three arguments, e.g. $0 -p pidfile daemon-name"
@@ -102,14 +96,20 @@ case $1 in
                 exit 1 # Exit
             fi
         fi
-        # Start the daemon.
-        if ! ulimit -n $NOFILES >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-            echo -n "Cannot set the max number of open file descriptors"
-		    exit 1
+
+        # Bump the file limits, before launching the daemon. These will carry over to
+        # launched processes.
+        ulimit -n $OPEN_FILE_LIMIT
+        if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+            log_failure_msg "set open file limit to $OPEN_FILE_LIMIT"
         fi
 
         log_success_msg "Starting the process" "$name"
-        nohup $daemon run -config $config -pidfile $pidfile > /dev/null 2>&1 &
+        if which start-stop-daemon > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+            start-stop-daemon --chuid influxdb:influxdb --start --quiet --pidfile $pidfile --exec $daemon -- -pidfile $pidfile -config $config > $STDOUT 2>&1 &
+        else
+            nohup $daemon run -config $config -pidfile $pidfile > $STDOUT 2>&1 &
+        fi
         log_success_msg "$name process was started"
         ;;
 

From 42d1f4056c4e34ecc7309eec9b1abfbbe7d7dce6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip O'Toole <philip@influxdb.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:27:17 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Create 'run' directory tree for influxdb

---
 package.sh | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/package.sh b/package.sh
index 7ece8944d0..9157b6108d 100755
--- a/package.sh
+++ b/package.sh
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 AWS_FILE=~/aws.conf
 
 INSTALL_ROOT_DIR=/opt/influxdb
+INFLUXDB_RUN_DIR=/var/opt/influxdb
 CONFIG_ROOT_DIR=/etc/opt/influxdb
 
 SAMPLE_CONFIGURATION=etc/config.sample.toml
@@ -169,6 +170,9 @@ if ! id influxdb >/dev/null 2>&1; then
 fi
 chown -R -L influxdb:influxdb $INSTALL_ROOT_DIR
 chmod -R a+rX $INSTALL_ROOT_DIR
+
+mkdir -p $INFLUXDB_RUN_DIR
+chown -R -L influxdb:influxdb $INFLUXDB_RUN_DIR
 EOF
     echo "Post-install script created successfully at $POST_INSTALL_PATH"
 }