On Sunday 14 September 2008 09:12:35 rex wrote:
> Thank you! It worked!
>
> So, what does that & mean?
>
> - Rex
>
> Clifford W. Hansen wrote:
> > On Sunday 14 September 2008 08:35:13 rex wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have a script that launches a program. If I launch this program
> >> manually, it keeps on running in the shell. It is a webserver, so I
> >> need it running all the time. However, if I exit the shell, it kills
> >> the webserver.
> >>
> >> I tried putting links to it in the rc0.d, rc1.d etc to make it start
> >> during startup, but it keeps on going during startup and never starts
> >> the other services.
> >>
> >> here is my script in /etc/init.d/coldfusion
> >>
> >> #!/bin/sh -e
> >> sAppName="ColdFusion 8"
> >> sUser=cfuser
> >> COLDFUSION_HOME=/opt/jrun4
> >> case "$1" in
> >> start)
> >> echo "Starting ${sAppName} as user $sUser..."
> >> su ${sUser} -c "$COLDFUSION_HOME/bin/jrun -start instance01"
> >> exit 0
> >> ;;
> >> stop)
> >> echo "Stopping ${sAppName}..."
> >> su ${sUser} -c "$COLDFUSION_HOME/bin/jrun -stop instance01"
> >> ;;
> >> restart)
> >> echo "Restarting ${sAppName}..."
> >> su ${sUser} -c "$COLDFUSION_HOME/bin/jrun -restart instance01"
> >> ;;
> >> status)
> >> su ${sUser} -c "$COLDFUSION_HOME/bin/jrun -status instance01"
> >> ;;
> >> *)
> >> echo "usage: /etc/init.d/coldfusion {stop|start|restart|status}"
> >> exit 1
> >> esac
> >> exit 0
> >> ###### EOF
> >>
> >> When I run #/etc/init.d/coldfusion start, it displays the startup
> >> messages, until it hits:
> >>
> >> 09/13 23:31:40 info Deploying EJB "JRunSQLInvoker" from:
> >> file:/opt/jrun4/lib/jrun-comp.ear
> >> Server instance01 ready (startup time: 23 seconds)
> >>
> >> and then the program/cursor is just there, waiting... forever...
> >>
> >> It does not exit. If this was in the startup, I would never get to the
> >> user login.
> >>
> >> And, if I press Ctrl-C, then the program terminates, but then webserver
> >> is dead.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions please?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> - Rex
> >
> > Rex,
> >
> > I'm not sure if there is a better way to do this, but you could try
> > adding a & at the end of the start line:
> > su ${sUser} -c "$COLDFUSION_HOME/bin/jrun -start instance01" &
> >
> > HTH
It's used to background a process see:
http://www.google.co.za/search?q=linux+job+control&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
http://linuxreviews.org/beginner/jobs/
But I agree with Tzafrir, use the start-stop-daemon program. If anything it
sounds better than backgrounding a process.
And thank you Gabriel I belive you are correct the & should be before the "
and not after it... ;)
HTH
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