init.d daemon/service

[Ray Madigan]

I have tried to find a linux init.d daemon for idempiere.  Does one already exist or do I build it myself?

[Peter Snizek]

This is what I am using and it's based almost 100% on a script that is included in the idempiere package.

Put the file into /etc/init.d

and then sudo update-rc.d idempiere defaults

I hope I didn't forget anything. It's a while ago since I did that.

Once it's done, the server should automatically start the idempiere service after booting the OS.

The service can be started, restarted or stopped with

service idempiere [start] [restart] [stop]

Filename: idempiere

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides:             idempiere

# Required-Start:       $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog

# Required-Stop:        $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog

# Default-Start:        2 3 4 5

# Default-Stop:         0 1 6

# Short-Description:    iDempiere 2.1 server

# Description:          Provides iDempiere ERP-CRM Server startup and shutdown s                                                                                                      cript. Requires PostgreSQL server.

# FileTarget:   /etc/init.d/idempiere

# FileOwner:    root.root

# FilePerms:    0755

#

# chkconfig:    2345 97 06

### END INIT INFO

# initialization

# adjust these variables to your environment

IDEMPIERE_HOME=/srv/idempiere/idempiere-server

IDEMPIEREUSER=psnizek

# Instead of using ENVFILE you can set JAVA_HOME, IDEMPIERE_HOME and add JAVA_HO                                                                                                      ME/bin to PATH

# in this case you can comment the source lines for ENVFILE below

# detected some problems with Hardy Heron ubuntu using the bash source command

ENVFILE=$IDEMPIERE_HOME/utils/myEnvironment.sh

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

RETVAL=0

IDEMPIERESTATUS=

MAXITERATIONS=60

getidempierestatus() {

    IDEMPIERESTATUSSTRING=$(ps ax | grep -v grep | grep $IDEMPIERE_HOME)

    echo $IDEMPIERESTATUSSTRING | grep -q $IDEMPIERE_HOME

    IDEMPIERESTATUS=$?

}

start () {

    getidempierestatus

    if [ $IDEMPIERESTATUS -eq 0 ] ; then

        echo "iDempiere is already running"

        return 1

    fi

    echo -n "Starting iDempiere ERP: "

    cd $IDEMPIERE_HOME/utils

    . $ENVFILE

    export LOGFILE=$IDEMPIERE_HOME/log/idempiere_`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.log

    su $IDEMPIEREUSER -c "mkdir -p IDEMPIERE_HOME/log"

    su $IDEMPIEREUSER -c "cd $IDEMPIERE_HOME;$IDEMPIERE_HOME/idempiere-server.sh                                                                                                       &> $LOGFILE &"

    RETVAL=$?

    if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] ; then

        # wait for server to be confirmed as started in logfile

        STATUSTEST=0

        ITERATIONS=0

        while [ $STATUSTEST -eq 0 ] ; do

            sleep 2

            tail -n 9 $LOGFILE | grep -q '.*WebUIServlet.*started successfully.*                                                                                                      ' && STATUSTEST=1

            echo -n "."

            ITERATIONS=`expr $ITERATIONS + 1`

            if [ $ITERATIONS -gt $MAXITERATIONS ]

                then

                break

            fi

        done

        if [ $STATUSTEST -eq 0 ]

        then

            log_warning_msg "Service hasn't started within the timeout allowed,                                                                                                       please review file $LOGFILE to see the status of the service"

        else

            log_success_msg "Service started"

        fi

        echo

    else

        log_failure_msg "Service not started"

    echo

    fi

    RETVAL=$?

    return $RETVAL

}

stop () {

    getidempierestatus

    if [ $IDEMPIERESTATUS -ne 0 ] ; then

          echo "iDempiere is already stopped"

          return 1

    fi

    echo -n "Stopping iDempiere ERP: "

    cd $IDEMPIERE_HOME/utils

    . $ENVFILE

    log_warning_msg "Trying direct kill with signal -15"

    # try direct kill with signal 15, then signal 9

    kill -15 -`ps ax o pgid,command | grep -v grep | grep $IDEMPIERE_HOME | sed                                                                                                       -e 's/^ *//g' | cut -f 1 -d " " | sort -u`

    sleep 5

    getidempierestatus

    if [ $IDEMPIERESTATUS -ne 0 ] ; then

          log_success_msg "Service stopped with kill -15"

    else

          echo "Trying direct kill with signal -9"

          kill -9 -`ps ax o pgid,command | grep -v grep | grep $IDEMPIERE_HOM                                                                                                          sed -e 's/^ *//g' | cut -f 1 -d " " | sort -u`

          sleep 5

          getidempierestatus

          if [ $IDEMPIERESTATUS -ne 0 ] ; then

            log_success_msg "Service stopped with kill -9"

          else

            log_warning_msg "Service hasn't stopped"

          fi

    fi

    return $RETVAL

}

restart () {

    stop

    sleep 1

    start

}

condrestart () {

    getidempierestatus

    if [ $IDEMPIERESTATUS -eq 0 ] ; then

           restart

    fi

}

status () {

    getidempierestatus

    if [ $IDEMPIERESTATUS -eq 0 ] ; then

                echo

                echo "iDempiere is running:"

                ps ax | grep -v grep | grep $IDEMPIERE_HOME | sed 's/^[[:s                                                                                                            ]*\([[:digit:]]*\).*:[[:digit:]][[:digit:]][[:space:]]\(.*\)/\1 \2/'

                echo

            else

                echo "iDempiere is stopped"

    fi

}

case "$1" in

    start)

        start

        ;;

    stop)

        stop

        ;;

    restart)

        restart

        ;;

    condrestart)

        condrestart

        ;;

    status)

        status

        ;;

    *)

        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status}"

        exit 1

esac

exit 0

[mhernandezve]

Hi Ray,

You can find daemon init scripts for some linux distributions on "./idempiere-server/utils/unix/" on binary distribution file.

[Peter Snizek]

I recommend to add a line for loading the entropy daemon "haveged" (if need to install: sudo apt-get install haveged) into the script, before idempiere is executed.

On some servers idempiere 2.x is pausing for a long time during start up. This solves it.

[Ayaz Ahmed]

@Peter Snizek

Thanks Peter it works perfectly after installation "haveged".