Forum OpenACS Q&A: bin/restart-aolserver needs replacing

The current bin/restart-aolserver seems like it should be replaced, I guess with https://openacs.org/doc/openacs-4/files/restart-aolserver.txt, which is referred to in Vinod's installation instructions.

In OACS 4.5, the current bin/restart-aolserver will fail for most people: it assumes an unusual location for perl, it assumes Unix98, not BSD ps, and on my system, suidperl refuses to use /bin/ps.  Ignoring suid, it's easy to fix, but the other version of the script might be better.

As a further note for any SuSE users grepping this forum, SuSE Linux (which I use) actually disables suidperl by stripping the s bit; I have to enable suidperl using "su; chmod +s /usr/bin/suidperl" before running setuid perl scripts.  Not that I need to for this purpose, since nsd runs as nsadmin after following the installation instructions.

BTW, is there a way to do a restart from within the openacs system?

-Kevin Murphy

It is independent of other tools/languages except for a simple shell script, and will automatically restart if nsd dies  or is killed (like in the install process).

Its easy enough to set up from Tom Jacksons howto. If you have to install from source, just follow directions to download & install from cr.yp.to/daemontools page.