Roberto Mello wrote:
There's also djb's supervise, but as with every other djb tool, it's non-free, hard to setup and non-intuitive to understand.
I'm sorry that I can't resist. Just download and install djb's daemontools package. It is a one or two minute install process. Then to start AOLserver you create a file called run in some directory.
I use /web/control/servername. The run script should set any environment variables you need and then start AOLserver. Here is a copy of mine, which works for both pg and Oracle:
#!/bin/bash
export ORACLE_HOME="/ora8/m01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7"
export ORACLE_BASE="/ora8/m01/app/oracle"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/ctx/lib:/usr/local/pgsql/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/ctx/lib:$PATH
export ORACLE_SID='ora8'
export ORACLE_TERM='vt100'
export ORAENV_ASK=NO
export NLS_DATE_FORMAT="YYYY-MM-DD"
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
sleep 4
exec /usr/local/aolserver/bin/nsd -it \
/web/control/iunicycle-oracle/iunicycle-oracle-nsd.tcl -u \
iunicycle -g web
Then you just link the directory to the /service directory:
ln -s /web/control/servername /service
Your webserver should start in a few seconds.
If your server seems to not startup, or constantly restarts without printing to the error.log why it is dying (usually a startup file syntax error), you can use ps axww|grep readproctitle to show the last 400 chars of output.
Start and stop, restart of your server:
svc -u /service/servername
svc -d /service/servername
svc -k /service/servername
svc -o /service/servername ;# start once, don't restart
Getting a status on how long the server is up/down:
svstat /service/servername
My opinion is software is never intuitive, but it can have simple commands and good documentation.
