From 79660e4ff43b55fee1eaa70a27263c4cc3c905a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brad Solomon Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 10:21:15 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Note that install_server.sh is not for Mac OSX It will fail pretty quickly since there is no -f readlink flag there. --- README.md | 2 ++ utils/install_server.sh | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2b4eeb19b..6c9435b53 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ for Ubuntu and Debian systems: % cd utils % ./install_server.sh +_Note_: `install_server.sh` will not work on Mac OSX; it is built for Linux only. + The script will ask you a few questions and will setup everything you need to run Redis properly as a background daemon that will start again on system reboots. diff --git a/utils/install_server.sh b/utils/install_server.sh index 7eb341417..8e5753bc6 100755 --- a/utils/install_server.sh +++ b/utils/install_server.sh @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ # # /!\ This script should be run as root # +# NOTE: This script will not work on Mac OSX. +# It supports Debian and Ubuntu Linux. +# ################################################################################ die () {