How to keep redis server running - redis

I am using redis for session support in nodejs app. I have installed redis server and it works when I run redis-server, but when I close terminal redis stops and does not work. How do I keep redis server running after closing the terminal?


And, if you'd like a quick option, run: redis-server --daemonize yes.


The easiest way to launch Redis as a daemon is to edit the configuration file and change the following line:
# By default Redis does not run as a daemon. Use 'yes' if you need it.
# Note that Redis will write a pid file in /var/run/redis.pid when daemonized.
daemonize yes
Be sure to provide the configuration file on the redis-server command line when you launch it.
An example of configuration file is provided in the Redis distribution.


As mentioned by #DidierSpezia in his answer,
Set daemonize yes in Redis conf file.
Set daemonize yes in Redis conf file at /path/to/redis.conf Generally
it should be there at /etc/.
And :
Then trigger redis-server with the conf file as an argument:
./redis-server /etc/redis.conf
UPDATE
You may directly run the redis with demonize flag as well
redis-server --daemonize yes


The accepted answer is mostly outdated.
While the question is old, Google still ranks this highly, so allow me to correct this.
The OP did not provide any detail about his setup, but you can assume it is a linux, and he doesn't mention containers, so you can also assume he is running redis without them.
There is three detail that make the accepted answer a thing to forget
Most (popular) distros come with systemd by default
Most (popular) distros have redis in their official repos
that official redis package installs systemd service for redis
So
It will have supervised systemd in its default config
To start: the redis daemon with sudo systemctl start redis#instanceName where you substitue "instanceName". Also sudo systemctl enable redis#instanceName for auto-starting on boot. (BTW, forget about service start, and init scripts already! These are less portable nowdays than calling directly systemctl).
do NOT set to daemonize: yes, that will interfere with the systemd supervisioning redis!
Systemd will supervise, restart your redis, and you can set service depenedencies and service preconditions to/for it, even for a custom executable it is not that hard, search for systemd unit files (you'll need a ~10 lines config file). Chances are, you'd want it.
If the three detail (making systemd the correct answer) are not met/relevant, you are most likely running redis containerized. For docker/podman/etc., it is another question altogether... (no systemd in the inner linux, but you'd have to (or already do) supervise(d) the container-daemon itself)

Related

Redis don't stop or restart on CentOS7

I've installed Redis version 3.2.12 on one node CentOS 7 of a cluster with Cloudera Manager 6.3 and my redis never stop.
Everything is on default, I just added the password, but that has no effects because I can't restart. Option daemonize is no
My instalation was:
sudo yum -y install redis
sudo service redis start
When I type redis-cli, CLI starts normally at 127.0.0.1:6379. When I try shutdown, the console shows 'not connected', but with lsof -i :6379 I can identify that some jobs die and return with another PID.
If I try to kill the redis jobs, it always return with another PID.
service redis stop Return 'Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop redis.service' but has no effects.
If I try service redis restart then service redis status it returns:
redis.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Unit redis.service entered failed state.
Someone can please help me as a way to debug or understand what is happening? It's my first time with Redis.

Not sure how is this related to celery...
CentOS 7 uses systemd so I would recommend stop using the service tool and start using the systemctl. First thing you should try is systemctl status redis to check the status of the Redis service. If it shows that for whatever reason it is down, then you should either check Redis logs, or use journalctl tool to look for system logs created by Redis.

I have seen that some installations might have redis as the command-line executable while some might have redis-server. So, please try one of these commands (one will work depending on the redis package):
sudo service redis-server restart
# OR
sudo service redis restart
If you have a newer Cent OS having systemctl installed, then try one of these:
sudo systemctl restart redis-server
# OR
sudo systemctl restart redis

Could not connect to Redis at 127.0.0.1:6379: Connection refused with homebrew

Using homebrew to install Redis but when I try to ping Redis it shows this error:
Could not connect to Redis at 127.0.0.1:6379: Connection refused
Note :
I tried to turn off firewall and edit conf file but still cannot ping.
I am using macOS Sierra and homebrew version 1.1.11

After installing redis, type from terminal:
redis-server
And Redis-Server will be started

I found this question while trying to figure out why I could not connect to redis after starting it via brew services start redis.
tl;dr
Depending on how fresh your machine or install is you're likely missing a config file or a directory for the redis defaults.
You need a config file at /usr/local/etc/redis.conf. Without this file redis-server will not start. You can copy over the default config file and modify it from there with
cp /usr/local/etc/redis.conf.default /usr/local/etc/redis.conf
You need /usr/local/var/db/redis/ to exist. You can do this easily with
mkdir -p /usr/local/var/db/redis
Finally just restart redis with brew services restart redis.
How do you find this out!?
I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out if redis wasn't using the defaults through homebrew and what port it was on. Services was misleading because even though redis-server had not actually started, brew services list would still show redis as "started." The best approach is to use brew services --verbose start redis which will show you that the log file is at /usr/local/var/log/redis.log. Looking in there I found the smoking gun(s)
Fatal error, can't open config file '/usr/local/etc/redis.conf'
or
Can't chdir to '/usr/local/var/db/redis/': No such file or directory
Thankfully the log made the solution above obvious.
Can't I just run redis-server?
You sure can. It'll just take up a terminal or interrupt your terminal occasionally if you run redis-server &. Also it will put dump.rdb in whatever directory you run it in (pwd). I got annoyed having to remove the file or ignore it in git so I figured I'd let brew do the work with services.

If after install you need to run redis on all time, just type in terminal:
redis-server &
Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu
I've been trying to understand how to setup systems from the ground up on Ubuntu. I just installed redis onto the box and here's how I did it and some things to look out for.
To install:
sudo apt-get install redis-server
That will create a redis user and install the init.d script for it. Since upstart is now the replacement for using init.d, I figure I should convert it to run using upstart.
To disable the default init.d script for redis:
sudo update-rc.d redis-server disable
Then create /etc/init/redis-server.conf with the following script:
description "redis server"
start on runlevel [23]
stop on shutdown
exec sudo -u redis /usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf
respawn
What this is the script for upstart to know what command to run to start the process. The last line also tells upstart to keep trying to respawn if it dies.
One thing I had to change in /etc/redis/redis.conf is daemonize yes to daemonize no. What happens if you don't change it then redis-server will fork and daemonize itself, and the parent process goes away. When this happens, upstart thinks that the process has died/stopped and you won't have control over the process from within upstart.
Now you can use the following commands to control your redis-server:
sudo start redis-server
sudo restart redis-server
sudo stop redis-server
Hope this was helpful!

redis-server --daemonize yes
I have solved this issue by running this command.

This work for me :
sudo service redis-server start

Date: Dec 2021
There is a couple of reason for this error. I read one article to fix the issue for me. So I just summarize what to check one by one.
1 Check: Redis-Server not Started
redis-server
Also to run Redis in the background, the following command could be used.
redis-server --daemonize yes
2. Check: Firewall Restriction
sudo ufw status (inactive)
sudo ufw active (for making active it might disable ssh when first time active. So enable port 22 to access ssh.)
sudo ufw allow 22
sudo ufw allow 6379
3. Check: Resource usage
ps -aux | grep redis
4. Config setup restriction
sudo vi /etc/redis/redis.conf.
Comment the following line.
# bind 127.0.0.1 ::1
Note: It will be more difficult for malicious actors to make requests or gain access to your server. Make sure you're bound to correct IP address network.
Hope it helps someone. For more information read the following article.
https://bobcares.com/blog/could-not-connect-to-redis-connection-refused/

It's the better way to connect to your redis.
At first, check the ip address of redis server like this.
ps -ef | grep redis
The result is kind of " redis 1184 1 0 .... /usr/bin/redis-server 172.x.x.x:6379
And then you can connect to redis with -h(hostname) option like this.
redis-cli -h 172.x.x.x

Try this :
sudo service redis-server restart

Error connecting Redis on Apple Silicon( Macbook Pro M1 - Dec 2020), you have to just know 2 things:
Run the redis-server using a sudo will remove the server starting error
shell% sudo redis-server
For running it as a service "daemonize" it will allow you to run in the background
shell% sudo redis-server --daemonize yes
Verify using below steps:
shell% redis-cli ping
Hope this helps all Macbook Pro M1 users who are really worried about lack of documentation on this.

I was stuck on this for a long time. After a lot of tries I was able to configure it properly.
There can be different reasons of raising the error. I am trying to provide the reason and the solution to overcome from that situation. Make sure you have installed redis-server properly.
6379 Port is not allowed by ufw firewall.
Solution: type following command sudo ufw allow 6379
The issue can be related to permission of redis user. May be redis user doesn't have permission of modifying necessary redis directories. The redis user should have permissions in the following directories:
/var/lib/redis
/var/log/redis
/run/redis
/etc/redis
To give the owner permission to redis user, type the following commands:
sudo chown -R redis:redis /var/lib/redis
sudo chown -R redis:redis /var/log/redis
sudo chown -R redis:redis /run/redis
sudo chown -R redis:redis /etc/redis.
Now restart redis-server by following command:
sudo systemctl restart redis-server
Hope this will be helpful for somebody.

First you need to up/start the all the redis nodes using below command, one by one for all conf files.
#Note : if you are setting up cluster then you should have 6 nodes, 3 will be master and 3 will be slave.redis-cli will automatically select master and slave out of 6 nodes using --cluster command as shown in my below commands.
[xxxxx#localhost redis-stable]$ redis-server xxxx.conf
then run
[xxxxx#localhost redis-stable]$ redis-cli --cluster create 127.0.0.1:7000 127.0.0.1:7001 127.0.0.1:7002 127.0.0.1:7003 127.0.0.1:7004 127.0.0.1:7005 --cluster-replicas 1
output of above should be like:
>>> Performing hash slots allocation on 6 nodes...
2nd way to set up all things automatically:
you can use utils/create-cluster scripts to set up every thing for you like
starting all nodes, creating cluster
you an follow https://redis.io/topics/cluster-tutorial
Thanks

Actually you need to run "redis-server &" after instalation to start the service, when you only run "redis-server" the service runs in undetached mode. emphasis on "&"

I just had this same problem because I had used improper syntax in my config file. I meant to add:
maxmemory-policy allkeys-lru
to my config file, but instead only added:
allkeys-lru
which evidently prevented Redis from parsing the config file, which in turn prevented me from connecting through the cli. Fixing this syntax allowed me to connect to Redis.

Had that issue with homebrew MacOS the problem was some sort of permission missing on /usr/local/var/log directory see issue here
In order to solve it I deleted the /usr/local/var/log and reinstall redis brew reinstall redis

In my case, it was the password that contained some characters like ', after changing it the server started without problems.

Just like Aaron, in my case brew services list claimed redis was running, but it wasn't. I found the following information in my log file at /usr/local/var/log/redis.log:
4469:C 28 Feb 09:03:56.197 # oO0OoO0OoO0Oo Redis is starting oO0OoO0OoO0Oo
4469:C 28 Feb 09:03:56.197 # Redis version=4.0.9, bits=64, commit=00000000, modified=0, pid=4469, just started
4469:C 28 Feb 09:03:56.197 # Configuration loaded
4469:M 28 Feb 09:03:56.198 * Increased maximum number of open files to 10032 (it was originally set to 256).
4469:M 28 Feb 09:03:56.199 # Creating Server TCP listening socket 192.168.161.1:6379: bind: Can't assign requested address
That turns out to be caused by the following configuration:
bind 127.0.0.1 ::1 192.168.161.1
which was necessary to give my VMWare Fusion virtual machine access to the redis server on macOS, the host. However, if the virtual machine wasn't started, this binding failure caused redis not to start up at all. So starting the virtual machine solved the problem.

I was trying to connect my Redis running in wsl2 from vs code running in Windows.
I have listed down what worked for me and the order in which I have performed these actions:
1) sudo ufw allow 6379
2) Update redis.conf to bind 127.0.0.1 ::1 192.168.1.7
3) sudo service redis-server restart
NOTE: This is the first time I have installed Redis on wsl2 and have not run a single command yet.
Let me know if it works for you.
Thanks.

Redis for Mac:
1- brew install redis
2- brew services start redis
3- redis-cli ping
$ brew services start redis
$ brew services stop redis
$ brew services restart redis
Lunch autostart options:
$ ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/redis/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
# autostart activate
$ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
# autostart deactivate
$ launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
Redis conf default path : /usr/local/etc/redis.conf

In my case, someone had come along and incorrectly edited the redis.conf file to this:
bind 127.0.0.1 ::1
bind 192.168.1.7
when, it really needed to be this (one line):
bind 127.0.0.1 ::1 192.168.1.7

I am using Ubuntu 18.04
I have just enter this command in CMD
sudo systemctl start redis-server
And it is now working. so I thing my redis server was not started that why it showing me the error
Could not connect to Redis at 127.0.0.1:6379: Connection refused.

Running multiple instance of Redis on Centos

I want to run multiple instance of Redis on Centos 7.
Can anyone point me to proper link or post steps here.
I googled for the information but I didn't find any relevant information.

You can run multiple instances of Redis using different ports on a single machine. If this what concerns you then you can follow the below steps.
By installing the first Redis instance, it listens on localhost:6379 by default.
For Second Instance create a new working directory
The default Redis instance uses /var/lib/redis as its working directory, dumped memory content is saved under this directory with name dump.rdb if you did not change it. To avoid runtime conflicts, we need to create a new working directory.
mkdir -p /var/lib/redis2/
chown redis /var/lib/redis2/
chgrp redis /var/lib/redis2/
Generate configurations
Create a new configuration file by copying /etc/redis/redis.conf
cp /etc/redis/redis.conf /etc/redis/redis2.conf
chown redis /etc/redis/redis2.conf
Edit following settings to avoid conflicts
logfile "/var/log/redis/redis2.log"
dir "/var/lib/redis2"
pidfile "/var/run/redis/redis2.pid"
port 6380
Create service file
cp /usr/lib/systemd/system/redis.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/redis2.service
Modify the settings under Service section
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis2.conf --daemonize no
ExecStop=/usr/bin/redis-shutdown redis2
Set to start with boot
systemctl enable redis2
Start 2nd Redis
service redis2 start
Check Status
lsof -i:6379
lsof -i:6380
By Following this you can start two Redis servers. If you want more repeat the steps again.

If I set to --daemonize no, Redis will crash when data insert.
ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis2.conf --daemonize no
Should change to
ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis2.conf --supervised systemd
My Redis is 5.0.7.
FYI.

Sentinel work fail after rename config command of redis

I've installed stablest redis(ver 3.2). Everything work fine until I renamed CONFIG command of redis, sentinel could not promote slave to be master.
Think the problem is sentinel still use CONFIG command (has been renamed) to change configuration of redis.
Is there any way to change configuration of sentinel (via redis-cli or configuration files sentinel.conf) to adapt redis configuration (renamed config command). If there isn't, how about changing source code?
Thanks

After google, I found solution for this problem.
I replace redis/src/sentinel.c via this redis github, rebuild and install redis from source.
Then I could add a directive to sentinel.conf to configure sentinel use renamed config command.
sentinel config-command mymaster <renamed-command>

Redis-Sentinel with Redis whose CONFIG command is renamed

The CONFIG command is renamed to CONFIG_2267bccb973c432d96a26e96ca50860a
As I know, Redis-sentinel relies on this command, yes? How can configure redis-sentinel to use the renamed command?

You can't. Redis sentinel doesn't support renamed config commands. By the way this is an admin question so it belongs on serverfault.