{"id":436,"date":"2011-11-30T22:23:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T21:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/2011\/11\/how-to-start-up-varnish-with-a-custom-cc_command-on-debian\/"},"modified":"2011-11-30T22:23:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T21:23:55","slug":"how-to-start-up-varnish-with-a-custom-cc_command-on-debian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/2011\/11\/how-to-start-up-varnish-with-a-custom-cc_command-on-debian\/","title":{"rendered":"How to start up varnish with a custom cc_command on Debian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you need to compile your varnish VCL file with custom options, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cosimo\/varnish-geoip\" rel=\"nofollow\">maybe because of libraries like GeoIP<\/a>, and you&#39;re running Debian, you can not use the init script that&#39;s shipped by default.<\/p>\n<p>It will not work because of how shell expansion works in the <code>start-stop-daemon<\/code> command contained in the init script. I wrote my explanation and a proposed fix in much more detail in <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/5906603\/varnish-daemon-opts-options-errors\/8333333#8333333\" title=\"Varnish DAEMON_OPTS options error\" rel=\"nofollow\">this stack overflow question<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/5906603\/varnish-daemon-opts-options-errors\/8333333#8333333\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/5906603\/varnish-daemon-opts-options-errors\/8333333#8333333<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TL;DR: (+ quick &amp; dirty fix) patch your init script like this:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n start_varnishd() {\r\n     log_daemon_msg &quot;Starting $DESC&quot; &quot;$NAME&quot;\r\n     output=$(\/bin\/tempfile -s.varnish)\r\n-    if start-stop-daemon \r\n-       --start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} --exec ${DAEMON} -- \r\n-       -P ${PIDFILE} ${DAEMON_OPTS} &gt; ${output} 2&gt;&amp;1; then\r\n+    if bash -c &quot;start-stop-daemon \r\n+        --start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} --exec ${DAEMON} -- \r\n+        -P ${PIDFILE} ${DAEMON_OPTS} &gt; ${output} 2&gt;&amp;1&quot;; then\r\n         log_end_msg 0\r\n     else\r\n         log_end_msg 1\r\n         cat $output\r\n         exit 1\r\n     fi\r\n     rm $output\r\n }\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Let me know if it works for you!<\/p>\n<p><b>EDIT (7\/Mar\/2012):<\/b> bug was filed in Debian as <a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=659005\" rel=\"nofollow\">#659005<\/a>. 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