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| author | Gareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org> | 2014-06-19 13:07:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Gareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org> | 2014-07-03 12:38:19 +0100 |
| commit | f425944c05feeba1a5ad471884474e5cce26a515 (patch) | |
| tree | c71575276ecf4c61931b3a46409100266bce71df /docs/installing/manual_install.md | |
| parent | ec7ee8389f9e1508635e9910aae51586b5304ec9 (diff) | |
Add better examples for generating the alert daemon
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/installing/manual_install.md | 22 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/installing/manual_install.md b/docs/installing/manual_install.md index 6002682fe..b9686f7a5 100644 --- a/docs/installing/manual_install.md +++ b/docs/installing/manual_install.md @@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ The `ugly` format uses simple variable substitution. A variable looks like WhatDoTheyKnow. mySociety render the example file to reference absolute paths, and then drop it in `/etc/cron.d/` on the server. -The variables are: +**Template Variables:** * `vhost_dir`: the full path to the directory where alaveteli is checked out. e.g. If your checkout is at `/var/www/alaveteli` then set this to `/var/www` @@ -399,10 +399,22 @@ useful to you. Change the variables to suit your installation. ### Generate alert daemon One of the cron jobs refers to a script at `/etc/init.d/foi-alert-tracks`. This -is an init script, a copy of which lives in `config/alert-tracks-debian.ugly`. -As with the cron jobs above, replace the variables (and/or bits near the -variables) with paths to your software. You can use the rake task `rake -config_files:convert_init_script` to do this. +is an init script, which can be generated from the +`config/alert-tracks-debian.ugly` template. + +**Template Variables:** + +* `vhost_dir`: the full path to the directory where alaveteli is checked out. + e.g. If your checkout is at `/var/www/alaveteli` then set this to `/var/www` +* `user`: the user that the software runs as + +There is a rake task that will help to rewrite this file into one that is +useful to you. Change the variables to suit your installation. + + bundle exec rake config_files:convert_init_script \ + DEPLOY_USER=deploy \ + VHOST_DIR=/var/www \ + SCRIPT_FILE=config/alert-tracks-debian.ugly > /etc/init.d/foi-alert-tracks ### Generate varnish purge daemon |