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• First part: Build OpenGroupware.org
• Second part: Database
• Third part: LDAP

We got the core OpenGroupware application.
We got a database backend (PostgreSQL).
We got centralized user management (LDAP).

Now it’s time to finish it all with a basic startup script for ogo.

Open up an editor:

sudo nano /etc/init.d/ogo

And put in the following:

#!/bin/bash

APP=ogo-webui-1.1
PIDFILE=/var/run/ogo

case “${1:-”}” in
’start’)
su -c “source /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh && $APP” ogo >>/var/log/ogo/stdout 2>>/var/log/ogo/stderr &
echo $! > $PIDFILE
;;
’stop’)
cat $PIDFILE | xargs kill
;;
‘restart’)
/etc/init.d/ogo stop
/etc/init.d/ogo start
;;
*)      # no parameter specified
echo “Usage: $SELF start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status”
exit 1
;;
esac

(This is probably not the best startup script, but I have really no experience with this, and it does the job.)

You also need to create a directory for log files:

sudo mkdir /var/log/ogo

The init script will write stdout and stderr of the ogo webui process to appropriately named files.

Time to add the init script to the boot process:

sudo update-rc.d ogo defaults

Now it will start automatically on boot and stop on shutdown.

And that’s it for this HowTo series. If You have any questions, don’t hesitate to comment! Thanks for reading!

Posted on October 28th, 2008 under Linux • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback