pt-heartbeat not daemonizing when invoked with --stop --update

[Tom Hodder]

with the following invocation ;
/usr/bin/pt-heartbeat --user=heartbeat --password=XXX --create-table -D percona --table heartbeat --update -h myserver --interval 10 --sentinel /tmp/pt-heartbeat-sentinel --stop --daemonize

the command is not going into the background, or returning an error.

[Daniel Nichter (daniel-nichter)]

Can you execute that command with PTDEBUG=1 at the start and ">dbg.txt 2>&1" at the end then attach dbg.txt? The tool should strip the password, but double-check dbg.txt anyway.

[Baron Schwartz (baron-xaprb)]

I suspect no bug, but just some unexpected interaction with --sentinel and --stop. With no further feedback from the OP I suggest we WontFix this.

[Miguel Angel Nieto (miguelangelnieto)]

Tested with the latest Percona Toolkit and works as expected, it goes to the background.

# pt-heartbeat --user=root --create-table -D percona --table heartbeat --update -h 127.0.0.1 --interval 10 --sentinel /tmp/pt-heartbeat-sentinel --stop --daemonize
Successfully created file /tmp/pt-heartbeat-sentinel
# ps aux | grep pt-heartbeat
root 8240 0.0 0.3 80196 13536 ? Ss 12:37 0:00 perl /usr/bin/pt-heartbeat --user=root --create-table -D percona --table heartbeat --update -h 127.0.0.1 --interval 10 --sentinel /tmp/pt-heartbeat-sentinel --stop --daemonize

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PT-950