Init Script For Alfresco
One of the challenges posted on the Faneshi mailing list was for someone to write a startup script for Alfresco. I took the challenge to write it, not because its so trivial to write such a script but a way to kill time and shut down all IM activities. It took me a few minutes to write a clean code. I posted my code back to the list for comments and testing and it turns out to work perfectly. Few comments were posted about setting java home with the init script but Edem, a member of the group commented that is not necessary and won’t make the script generic but better that is done with /etc/profile file. So my code after all didn’t suffer from any modification. Here is the code ( for debain based distros ).
1 #!/bin/bash
2
3 # $Id: $
4
5 # /etc/init.d/alfresco: start alfresco and stop alfresco
6 set -e
7
8 #include init functions so we can use functions like
9 # log_daemon_msg to output messages instead of echo
10 . /lib/lsb/init-functions
11
12 # start method
13 start_alfresco() {
14 log_daemon_msg “Starting alfresco…“
15
16 /opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh start
17 return
18 }
19
20 #stop method
21 stop_alfresco() {
22 log_daemon_msg “Stopping alfresco…“
23
24 /opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh stop
25 return
26 }
27
28 # now let run the functions
29 case “$1“ in
30 start)
31 start_alfresco
32 ;;
33 stop)
34 stop_alfresco
35 ;;
36 *)
37 log_daemon_msg “Usage:{start|stop}“
38 exit 1
39 ;;
40 esac
41 exit 0
Below is for RedHat based distros as posted by Edem.
1 #!/bin/bash
2
3 # chkconfig: 35 99 01
4 #include init functions so we can use functions like
5 . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
6
7 # start method
8 start_alfresco() {
9 log_daemon_msg “Starting alfresco…“
10 /opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh start
11 return
12 }
13
14 #stop method
15 stop_alfresco() {
16 log_daemon_msg “Stopping alfresco…“
17 /opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh stop
18 return
19 }
20 # now let run the functions
21 case “$1“ in
22 start)
23 start_alfresco
24 ;;
25 stop)
26 stop_alfresco
27 ;;
28 *)
29 log_daemon_msg “Usage:{start|stop}“
30 exit 1
31 ;;
32 esac
33 exit 0
tim on June 8th, 2009
http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html
You need a few more things for it to be a true init script that should be used on a system but it is a great start and what I am basing mine on (mine wont be a true one either because I dont actually need it to be) the actions you need are start, stop, restart, force-reload, and status but I usually ignore force-reload