Installation of redis-2.6.7 as a service results in errors

[vivekhub]

Seems to be there are minor configuration errors. I just did a fresh download and install as a service. I get the following error

vivekv@precise-fan:~/custom-build/redis/redis-2.6.7/utils$ sudo ./install_server.sh 
[sudo] password for vivekv: 
Welcome to the redis service installer
This script will help you easily set up a running redis server


Please select the redis port for this instance: [6379] 
Selecting default: 6379
Please select the redis config file name [/etc/redis/6379.conf] 
Selected default - /etc/redis/6379.conf
Please select the redis log file name [/var/log/redis_6379.log] 
Selected default - /var/log/redis_6379.log
Please select the data directory for this instance [/var/lib/redis/6379] 
Selected default - /var/lib/redis/6379
Please select the redis executable path [/usr/local/bin/redis-server] 
s#^port [0-9]{4}$#port 6379#;s#^logfile .+$#logfile /var/log/redis_6379.log#;s#^dir .+$#dir /var/lib/redis/6379#;s#^pidfile .+$#pidfile /var/run/redis_6379.pid#;s#^daemonize no$#daemonize yes#;
Copied /tmp/6379.conf => /etc/init.d/redis_6379
Installing service...
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/redis_6379 missing LSB information
update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>
 Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/redis_6379 ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K20redis_6379 -> ../init.d/redis_6379
   /etc/rc1.d/K20redis_6379 -> ../init.d/redis_6379
   /etc/rc6.d/K20redis_6379 -> ../init.d/redis_6379
   /etc/rc2.d/S20redis_6379 -> ../init.d/redis_6379
   /etc/rc3.d/S20redis_6379 -> ../init.d/redis_6379
   /etc/rc4.d/S20redis_6379 -> ../init.d/redis_6379
   /etc/rc5.d/S20redis_6379 -> ../init.d/redis_6379
Success!
Starting Redis server...

*** FATAL CONFIG FILE ERROR ***
Reading the configuration file, at line 110
>>> 'stop-writes-on-bgsave-error yes'
Bad directive or wrong number of arguments
ERROR: Failed starting service.... Aborting!

[elvin-lian]

I also have these problem:

*** FATAL CONFIG FILE ERROR ***
Reading the configuration file, at line 109

'stop-writes-on-bgsave-error yes'
Bad directive or wrong number of arguments

Who can help me?

[himulawang]

I have the same problem when I upgrade 2.4.x to 2.6.x.

[vizo]

Same problem with 2.6.8 ....

[vizo]

if you use Ubuntu you can try reinstall default package configs by doing this..

apt-get -o DPkg::options::=--force-confmiss --reinstall install redis-server

It works for me :)

[caoxudong]

My version is 2.6.7

The content between 176 and 183 in install_server.sh:

if [ !`which chkconfig` ] ; then                                                                                                   
    #if we're not a chkconfig box assume we're able to use update-rc.d                                                              
    update-rc.d redis_$REDIS_PORT defaults && echo "Success!"                                                                       
else                                                                                                                                
    # we're chkconfig, so lets add to chkconfig and put in runlevel 345                                                             
    chkconfig --add redis_$REDIS_PORT && echo "Successfully added to chkconfig!"                                                    
    chkconfig --level 345 redis_$REDIS_PORT on && echo "Successfully added to runlevels 345!"                                       
fi                                 

There should be a space after the character '!' in line 176.
e.g.

if [ ! `which chkconfig` ] ; then                                                                                                   
    #if we're not a chkconfig box assume we're able to use update-rc.d                                                              
    update-rc.d redis_$REDIS_PORT defaults && echo "Success!"                                                                       
else                                                                                                                                
    # we're chkconfig, so lets add to chkconfig and put in runlevel 345                                                             
    chkconfig --add redis_$REDIS_PORT && echo "Successfully added to chkconfig!"                                                    
    chkconfig --level 345 redis_$REDIS_PORT on && echo "Successfully added to runlevels 345!"                                       
fi                                 

Please add a space and try again.
Hope this useful.

[vizo]

Doesn't help for me ....
Maybe i should delete previous config first ..?

[caoxudong]

@vizo
After executing command "apt-get -o DPkg::options::=--force-confmiss --reinstall install redis-server", do your install-server.sh and configuration file change?
My server is CentOS 5.5. By default, there's nor command 'update-rc.d', so I have to modify install-server.sh, or it will fail.

[vizo]

Yes i did .. it worked but it installs default config names as port number ... it doesn't accept my values what i enter ... but i run just one instance on one port .. so i prefer to have confg file like redis.conf and service name like redis-server, not
redis_{port}.conf, redis-{port} as service ...

[vizo]

So on ubuntu i did... and it works...

• went in src dir
• make
• make install
• deleted old config from /etc/redis/redis.conf (provided with ubuntu of older version, i think 2.4.x)

i tried to copy default redis.conf from tar file but it doesn't work so i did ...

• run command apt-get -o DPkg::options::=--force-confmiss --reinstall install redis-server

[caoxudong]

@vizo
Thanks for your detail steps. I'm try to reproduce the error 'Bad directive or wrong number of arguments'.

Besides, because of the character '!' in if condition, install-server will ignore customized configuration.
To modify this, please see this diff

[jimothyGator]

@caoxudong: I submitted a pull request for the missing space: #909.