Starting redis-server on Ubuntu EC2 with fabric

Question

Trying to do the above.

fab.sudo("redis-server") 

I can see redis-server has started, but the fabric command line doesn't return for me to enter further commands. Suspect this is due to redis-server opening a terminal in default model. So:

fab.sudo("redis-server", pty=False)

No luck; same result; so

[confirmed that redis.conf has 'daemonize yes' set]

fab.sudo("nohup redis-server &> nohup.out")

No luck; same result.

:-(

Answer 1

I just compiled Redis from source on an Ubuntu EC2 box and ran this Fab task:

def run_redis_server():
    with cd('~/redis-stable'):
        run("./src/redis-server")

where redis-stable is the Redis directory.

It started the server successfully. Opening a shell run("./src/redis-cli") works as well.

Answer 2

redis-server is started automatically when you apt-get install redis-server . Additionally, it installs an init script to start the server in daemon-mode (backgrounded). Try executing ' service redis-server start ', but this will require root access on most systems.