Notes for operating systems

Mac OS

On Mac OS, you can administer Tarantool instances only with tarantoolctl. No native system tools are supported.

FreeBSD

To make tarantoolctl work along with init.d utilities on FreeBSD, use paths other than those suggested in Instance configuration. Instead of /usr/share/tarantool/ directory, use /usr/local/etc/tarantool/ and create the following subdirectories:

• default for tarantoolctl defaults (see example below),
• instances.available for all available instance files, and
• instances.enabled for instance files to be auto-started by sysvinit.

Here is an example of tarantoolctl defaults on FreeBSD:

default_cfg = {
    pid_file   = "/var/run/tarantool", -- /var/run/tarantool/${INSTANCE}.pid
    wal_dir    = "/var/db/tarantool", -- /var/db/tarantool/${INSTANCE}/
    snap_dir   = "/var/db/tarantool", -- /var/db/tarantool/${INSTANCE}
    vinyl_dir = "/var/db/tarantool", -- /var/db/tarantool/${INSTANCE}
    logger     = "/var/log/tarantool", -- /var/log/tarantool/${INSTANCE}.log
    username   = "tarantool",
}

-- instances.available - all available instances
-- instances.enabled - instances to autostart by sysvinit
instance_dir = "/usr/local/etc/tarantool/instances.available"

Gentoo Linux

The section below is about a dev-db/tarantool package installed from the official layman overlay (named tarantool).

The default instance directory is /etc/tarantool/instances.available, can be redefined in /etc/default/tarantool.

Tarantool instances can be managed (start/stop/reload/status/…) using OpenRC. Consider the example how to create an OpenRC-managed instance:

$ cd /etc/init.d
$ ln -s tarantool your_service_name
$ ln -s /usr/share/tarantool/your_service_name.lua /etc/tarantool/instances.available/your_service_name.lua

Checking that it works:

$ /etc/init.d/your_service_name start
$ tail -f -n 100 /var/log/tarantool/your_service_name.log