Forum OpenACS Q&A: Keeping AolServer Alive on MacOS X

How do you keep AolServer alive on MacOS X?  I've set up StartupItems for both PostgreSQL and AolServer.  However the dependencies don't work.  As I have specified that AolServer requires PostgreSQL in the plist file for AolServer.  AolServer seems to load up first, and OpenACS doesn't work, because it can't detect a PostgreSQL database at the time.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Nick.

I added both Aolserver and Postgresql to the one StartupItem.  This seems to do the job, as I am able to start PostgreSQL before Aolserver.

while true
do

/usr/local/aolserver/bin/nsd -b 0.0.0.0:80 -t /usr/local/aolserver/config.tcl -u postgres $*
sleep 10

done

Postgres Start

StartService ()
{
    if [ "${POSTGRES:=-NO-}" = "-YES-" ]; then
            ConsoleMessage "Starting postgres database services"
            su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data/ start -o \"-i\""
    fi
}

Postgres Plist
{
  Description   = "Postgres Database server";
  Provides      = ("PSQL");
  Requires      = ("Resolver");
  Uses          = ("Network Time", "NFS");
  Preference    = "None";
  Messages =
  {
    start = "Starting Postgres";
    stop  = "Stopping Postgres";
    restart  = "Reloading Postgres Configuration";
  };
}


AOL start

StartService ()
{
    if [ "${AOLServer:=-NO-}" = "-YES-" ]; then
            ConsoleMessage "Starting AOLServer"
            /usr/local/aolserver/bin/run.sh
    fi
}


AOLServer Plist
{
  Description   = "AOLServer";
  Provides      = ("AOL");
  Requires      = ("PSQL");
  Uses          = ("Network Time", "NFS");
  Preference    = "None";
  Messages =
  {
    start = "Starting AOLServer";
    stop  = "Stopping AOLServer";
    restart  = "Reloading AOLServer Configuration";
  };
}