[NIFI-4464] Couldn't install nifi as service on a Mac OS (OS X El Capitan 10.11.6) [Update documentation]

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Workaround
• Component/s: Configuration
• Labels: mac-os-x nifi nifi-as-service
• Assignee: Mike Thomsen
• Reporter: Karthikeyan Govindaraj
• Created: 04/Oct/17 17:08
• Updated: 24/Feb/19 09:26
• Resolved: 24/Feb/19 09:26

Description

Original bug report:

Installed the NiFi via HomeBrew on my Mac laptop with OS X (El Capital v 10.11.6) and ran the start / run commands, gave the expected result.

But when I say `nifi install` , I couldn't do so. It gave the following message.

`Installing Apache NiFi as a service is not supported on OS X or Cygwin.`

and I could see, that the nifi.sh *says the above message if it detected the OS as *Darwin (
https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/master/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-resources/src/main/resources/bin/nifi.sh#L59
)
and unfortunately the OS X is Darwin. But in the "Getting Started with Apache NiFi", it says installing nifi as a service is supported for OS X users. (Link -> https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/getting-started.html#installing-as-a-service)

Given that we do have work arounds for this on OS X, I am going to update the documentation instead of writing an OS X-specific service handler.