Amazon Linux – Where to Place Init Scripts

I figured out that the issue was that daemon was not playing nicely with exec. I updated my code to call kibana directly and added & at the end to get it to daemonize.

Update:

Unfortunately, I can't copy the full code I used, but I can tell you that I based it on https://github.com/chovy/node-startup. I basically forked this code and made the customizations that made sense for my setup.

Here's the key function in my init.d script:

KIBANA_EXEC="/path/to/my/kibana/bin"
LOG_FILE="/path/to/kibana/log/file"
PID_FILE="/path/to/kibana/pid/file"

...

start_it() {
    mkdir -p "$PID_DIR"
    mkdir -p "$LOG_DIR"

    # This is an artifact of the way I set things up and is a hacky solution to
    # fix a race condition, so copy with caution
    sleep 10

    echo "Starting Kibana..."
    $KIBANA_EXEC 1>"$LOG_FILE" 2>&1 &
    echo $! > "$PID_FILE"
    echo "Kibana started with pid $!"
}

Amazon Linux v 2.0 does support systemd and comes installed by default:

cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Amazon Linux"
VERSION="2.0 (2017.12)"
ID="amzn"
ID_LIKE="centos rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="2.0"
PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux 2.0 (2017.12) LTS Release Candidate"
ANSI_COLOR="0;33"
CPE_NAME="cpe:2.3:o:amazon:amazon_linux:2.0"
HOME_URL="https://amazonlinux.com/"

rpm -qa | grep -i systemd
systemd-libs-219-42.amzn2.4.x86_64
systemd-219-42.amzn2.4.x86_64
systemd-sysv-219-42.amzn2.4.x86_64`