A CentOS initscript for Redis

redis-server

#!/bin/sh
#
# redis - this script starts and stops the redis-server daemon
#
# chkconfig:   - 85 15 
# description:  Redis is a persistent key-value database
# processname: redis-server
# config:      /etc/redis/redis.conf
# config:      /etc/sysconfig/redis
# pidfile:     /var/run/redis.pid

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

# Check that networking is up.
[ "$NETWORKING" = "no" ] && exit 0

redis="/usr/local/sbin/redis-server"
prog=$(basename $redis)

REDIS_CONF_FILE="/etc/redis/redis.conf"

[ -f /etc/sysconfig/redis ] && . /etc/sysconfig/redis

lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/redis

start() {
    [ -x $redis ] || exit 5
    [ -f $REDIS_CONF_FILE ] || exit 6
    echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
    daemon $redis $REDIS_CONF_FILE
    retval=$?
    echo
    [ $retval -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile
    return $retval
}

stop() {
    echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
    killproc $prog -QUIT
    retval=$?
    echo
    [ $retval -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile
    return $retval
}

restart() {
    stop
    start
}

reload() {
    echo -n $"Reloading $prog: "
    killproc $redis -HUP
    RETVAL=$?
    echo
}

force_reload() {
    restart
}

rh_status() {
    status $prog
}

rh_status_q() {
    rh_status >/dev/null 2>&1
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        rh_status_q && exit 0
        $1
        ;;
    stop)
        rh_status_q || exit 0
        $1
        ;;
    restart|configtest)
        $1
        ;;
    reload)
        rh_status_q || exit 7
        $1
        ;;
    force-reload)
        force_reload
        ;;
    status)
        rh_status
        ;;
    condrestart|try-restart)
        rh_status_q || exit 0
	    ;;
    *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|try-restart|reload|force-reload}"
        exit 2
esac

The best fork from this gist (currently) is: https://gist.github.com/tahajahangir/155176867afed0ff80ad
It contains this improvements:

• using pid file for stop/status/start
• support changin user (and defaults to redis user)
• stop by sigterm (not sigquit)

I have redis v2.8.19-2 installed on my CentOS 6.5 server.

# rpm -qa | grep redis
redis-2.8.19-2.el6.art.x86_64

I have just commented out below line from stop () function and assigned retval=1

stop() {
    echo -n $"Stopping $name: "
    #[ -x $shut ] && $shut
    retval=1
    if [ -f $pidfile ]
    then
        # shutdown haven't work, try old way
        killproc -p $pidfile $name
        retval=$?
    else
        success "$name shutdown"
    fi
    echo
    [ $retval -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile
    return $retval
}

Now, it does not throws error in stop, start, status, or restart.

Hope this helps someone.

Regards,
Vikas

This script is not working for me. Anyone know what is going on?

Starting redis-server: chown: invalid user: redis:redis' /usr/bin/dirname: extra operand.pid'
Try `/usr/bin/dirname --help' for more information.
runuser: user redis does not exist

@tpaveyjr I used the https://gist.github.com/tahajahangir/155176867afed0ff80ad fork and had the same problem (on CentOS 6.6). Solved by adding --pidfile "/var/run/redis.pid" to the daemon call

This didn't quite work for me, so I tweaked it to use more generic/plain constructs: https://gist.github.com/ac-astuartkregor/5d11fe0e9f028087b66ac90423293263
This assumes you've told redis to run with daemonize yes in the config.