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When using ProcessBuilder to start consul and then other applications, processes were silently failing and hanging. DO NOT USE bash -i with consul. The -i is needed for some other process execs to initialize the environment. The following command appears to complete properly. After the processBuilder.start(), future process silently hang and fail for some unknown reason. Execution always worked properly from eclipse, but never from command line. Works from eclipse, but from command line caused future ProcessBuilder silent failures. String[] commandArray = {"/bin/bash", "-i", "-c", new "/opt/consul/consul agent -server -bootstrap -data-dir /tmp/consul -ui-dir /opt/consul/consul-ui/dist/"}; Works from eclipse and command line, no future ProcessBuilder failures. String[] commandArray = {"/bin/bash", "-c", "/opt/consul/consul agent -server -bootstrap -data-dir /tmp/consul -ui-dir /opt/consul/consul-ui/dist/"};...

Ubuntu 12.04 sudo apt-get install nginx will install everything, but might not be the latest version. get the latest: Download the latest version from http://wiki.nginx.org/Install install missing dependencies sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev sudo apt-get install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev build and install nginx ./configure --prefix=/opt/nginx make sudo make install setup some permissions - optional cd /opt sudo chown -R root:opt nginx sudo chmod -R g+w nginx cd /opt/nginx start/stop/relolad configuration sbin/nginx -c conf/nginx.conf sbin/nginx -s stop sbin/nginx -s reload

TCP open/close is expensive and limits throughput. Clients like browsers that can utilize persistent connections (keepalive) do not present a problem. IoT/M2M devices that are low power can't use persistent connections unless they utilize a gateway/proxy. NGINX has built-in support for handling the client TCP open/close and proxying the requests over a pool of persistent back-end server connections similar to Apache's AJP, but supposedly more efficiently. nginx configuration tested while watching  "sudo tcpdump -i 6.lo -nnvvXS port 8181"  to verify that nginx indeed does not repeatedly reestablish connections between nginx and back-end server. http {         ....     upstream foo_backend {         server localhost:8181;         # maintain a maximum of 10 idle connections to each upstream server         keepalive 10;     }     server { ...

AND/OR  - name: stop app   shell: pidof java | xargs -r kill -9 || /bin/true   when: pid.stdout != "" and (appUpdated|changed or configUpdated|changed) Overriding args to roles roles:    - { role: app_user, name: Ian    }    - { role: app_user, name: Terry  }    - { role: app_user, name: Graham }    - { role: app_user, name: John   } Conditional roles     - { role: hazelcast, when: target_env=='dev' } # hazelcast only required if providing service     - { role: nginx, when: target_env=='dev' }     - bootstrap # unconditional role Role Dependencies

Simple single line of Java without any library dependencies to read a file into a String and write a String to a file. Read file into String new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(filename))); Write String to file Files.write(Paths.get(filename), someString.getBytes());

  private static String getHostname()   {     try (BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(Runtime.getRuntime().exec("hostname").getInputStream()))     {       byte[] b = new byte[256];       in.read(b, 0, b.length); //guaranteed to read all data before returning       return new String(b);     }     catch (IOException e)     {       String message = "Error reading hostname";       Log.error(message);       throw new RuntimeException(message, e);     }   }