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My Play Framework logrotate configuration

Posted by on April 26, 2018 No comments

Here is another script I need to keep handy for the future. My logrotate script for Play Framework applications. The important thing here is the parameter “copytruncate”. I tried many times without it and the result was always the same: after the logrotate was done no more logging was made by the application. “copytruncate” solved this

/opt/myapp/logs/*.log {
  missingok
  notifempty
  size 50M
  copytruncate
  create 0644 root root
  rotate 9999
}

How to run logrotate manually:

logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.d/myapp

Tested on Ubuntu 14.04 and Play Framework 2.3

My Play Framework Upstart script

Posted by on April 20, 2018 No comments

Recently I had to create a upstart script for a Play application and this was the result of that. I put it here so I don’t have to start from scratch next time 🙂

########################################################################################################
#
#                                       Upstart Script
#
# Upstart script for a play application. Put this into a file like /etc/init/myapp.conf
#
# This could be the foundation for pushing play apps to the server using something like git-deploy
# By calling service play stop in the restart command and play-start in the restart command.
#
# Usage:
#   sudo start myapp
#   sudo stop myapp
#   sudo restart myapp
#   sudo status myapp
#
#########################################################################################################
 
description "Upstart script for MyApp"
author "Niklas Ottosson"
version "1.0"
 
# Set environment variables
env HOME=/my/app/dir/
env LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 
# Start and stop runlevels
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [06]
 
# Respawn parameters with limit: dies 3 times within 60 seconds
respawn
respawn limit 3 60
 
# Change directory to current version of Tankmin
chdir /my/app/dir/
 
# Delete any stray PIDs
pre-start script
  rm -f ${HOME}/RUNNING_PID
end script
 
# Upstart logging (/var/log/upstart/myapp.log)
console none
 
# TEST ENVIRONMENT (arguments here are what I'm using for this particular app - you should use what works best for your app)
exec bin/myapp -J-Xms256M -J-Xmx768m -J-server -Dhttp.port=80 -Dconfig.file=conf/application.conf -Dlogger.file=conf/application-logger_PROD.xml

Tested in a production environment on Ubuntu 14.04 and Play Framework 2.3

A small MySQL backup script using mysqldump and creates one file per database

Posted by on January 8, 2018 No comments

This is the script I use for all my Amazon RDS instances local backups (called from an EC2). It gives me one db backup file for every database in the RDS instance, and at the end it makes sure that I don’t have any files older then 30 days. I put it here now so I don’t loose it again 🙂

#!/bin/bash
 
DATE=$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M")
DATABASES=`mysql -hsomedbname-someregion.rds.amazonaws.com -udbadmin -pmypassword -e "show databases;"`
 
for db in $DATABASES; do
        echo $db
        mysqldump --databases $db --single-transaction -hsomedbname-someregion.rds.amazonaws.com -udbadmin -pmypassword | gzip > /opt/backup/mysql.backup.$db.$DATE.sql.gz
done
find /opt/backup/* -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

I set this on a two hour cron to make sure that I have fresh backups of my production databases

0 */2 * * * /opt/scripts/mysql_db_backup.sh > /var/log/mysql_db_backup.log