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As part of a provisioning script for CentOS 7 I am in need to have a one-liner that performs the following. Unfortunately, I have no clue how to achieve that.

  • If httpd is running then stop it
  • If httpd is not running then check if httpd is installed at all & start it
  • ideally the result is logged into /log/httpd/ AND /&hostname/log/httpd/

Anyone able to help?

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    why do you need a one-liner? is this a homework problem? Commented Apr 15, 2015 at 12:15
  • basically: I using a script that loads a yaml file containing the code to be run as part of cloud-init - the whole bunch then gets fired using the digital ocean API. Short: I try / need to avoid multi-lines in yaml as they get eaten to often. Commented Apr 15, 2015 at 12:20
  • Isn't it just systemctl restart httpd.service? Commented Apr 15, 2015 at 13:57
  • Define "one-liner". Does it need to be under a certain limit of characters or simply on a single line in a script file? The latter can be done by joining commands with ; or && instead of using newlines. Commented Apr 15, 2015 at 14:22

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In CentOS7, you have systemctl that will pretty much do most of this for you. If Apache is installed via the standard packages, this should work for you out-of-the-box:

echo -n $(date +"%s %F %T"): \ if systemctl is-active httpd; then \ systemctl stop httpd && echo "httpd stopped"; \ elif systemctl enable httpd; then \ systemctl start httpd && echo "httpd started"; \ else \ echo "httpd not installed"; false;\ fi 2>&1 || echo "Failure: $?" | \ tee -a /var/log/httpd/status.log /some/other/location/log/httpd/status.log

I broke it into several lines for clarity. To collapse it to one line, remove the \'s and newlines. You can add more verbosity to the logging.

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  • sweet! Thanks so much. I wonder why its so easy to understand if you see it written, but so hard figuring out how to achieve that without help. Commented Apr 15, 2015 at 16:23
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    The script doesn't cover some unusual boundary cases: (1) is-active is true but httpd is actually hung and non-responsive so that stop() doesn't succeed (2) systemctl fails to start httpd. Either way, the exit code will be non-zero but you may not see why in the logs. Solve this with something like || echo "Unknown failure: $?" between the final fi and the tee. It's also useful to date-time stamp the logs. Do this by preceding the whole thing with echo -n $(date "+%s %F %T"): Commented Apr 15, 2015 at 16:29
  • very good point - I am with you but it would take me a day to play around to achieve what you mentioned in the previous comment. So for my current purpose the provided script is perfect enough (also in terms of its logic and simplicity). Commented Apr 15, 2015 at 16:34
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Here is my onliner:

( if service httpd status; then echo 'stop'; service httpd stop; else echo 'check installed'; if ! rpm -qa | grep -q '^httpd-'; then echo 'install'; yum -y install httpd; fi; echo 'start'; service httpd start; fi ) &> /tmp/temp.log; cat /tmp/temp.log >> /log/httpd/some.log; cat /tmp/temp.log >> /&hostname/log/httpd/another.log; rm /tmp/temp.log
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  • Thanks for taking the time putting it together - I started with yours, but the one I flagged as being the solution is simply more simpel (for me to read & understand) Commented Apr 15, 2015 at 16:25

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