The Redis startup script is supposed to create a pid file at startup, but I've confirmed all the settings I can find, and no pid file is ever created.
I installed redis by:
$ yum install redis
$ chkconfig redis on
$ service redis start
In my config file (/etc/redis.conf) I checked to make sure these were enabled:
daemonize yes
pidfile /var/run/redis/redis.pid
And in the startup script (/etc/init.d/redis) there is:
exec="/usr/sbin/$name"
pidfile="/var/run/redis/redis.pid"
REDIS_CONFIG="/etc/redis.conf"
[ -e /etc/sysconfig/redis ] && . /etc/sysconfig/redis
lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/redis
start() {
[ -f $REDIS_CONFIG ] || exit 6
[ -x $exec ] || exit 5
echo -n $"Starting $name: "
daemon --user ${REDIS_USER-redis} "$exec $REDIS_CONFIG"
retval=$?
echo
[ $retval -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile
return $retval
}
stop() {
echo -n $"Stopping $name: "
killproc -p $pidfile $name
retval=$?
echo
[ $retval -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile
return $retval
}
These are the settings that came by default with the install. Any idea why no pid file is created? I need to use it for Monit. (The system is RHEL 6.4 btw)
Problem was that the user redis did not have permission to create the pid file (or directory it was in). Fix:
sudo mkdir /var/run/redis
sudo chown redis /var/run/redis
Then I killed and restarted redis and sure enough, there was redis.pid