The Enhanced Event Logging System

Starting the EELS database

The EELS daemon starts the database subsystem based on the information in the database-info configuration block in eels_config(4eels). The following parameters in the database-info configuration block are used for database startup:

database-start-cmd: specifies the command to use to start the database
database-log-file: specifies the name of the log file in which to store any startup information normally displayed on stdout

The EELS daemon forks and then execs the startup command and any arguments specified in database-start-cmd. Any output is redirected to the log file specified in database-log-file.

If the database process dies, the EELS daemon will automatically restart it. However, if the database continually fails to restart, eelsd will detect this and then stop trying.