[CASSANDRA-13492] RPM Init: don't attempt to start if it's running

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Component/s: Packaging
• Assignee: Stefan Podkowinski
• Reporter: martin a langhoff

Authors

Stefan Podkowinski

Reviewers

Michael Shuler

• Created: 03/May/17 21:54
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:30
• Resolved: 17/May/17 09:15

Description

We don't check whether Cassandra is running. Attempts to start Cassandra when it's already running overwrite the pidfile, make a confusing mess of logfiles, fail to start, as the port is taken; and then the init script cannot bring the first Cassandra process down because the init file has been clobbered.