> I have a few Linux guests which run WebSphere. There are times when
> applying maintenance, etc, that I need to reboot Linux on these
guests.
> If I have WebSphere auto-start during the boot process then every time
I
> boot I have to wait for WAS to finish coming up - something that takes
> several minutes - before I can even so much as sign on. Obviously, if
I
> need to boot more than once, I end up having wasted a lot of time.
One very simple method is to modify the startup script to check for the
presence of a "nostart" file (I've used /etc/websphere/nostart in other
places), and exit if the file is present, eg something like this
pseudocode:
if -f /etc/websphere/nostart do
exit 0;
od
When you're done, you just rm /etc/websphere/nostart, and everything
starts normally. If you want a totally menu-driven way, use a variable
in /etc/sysconfig for that particular script, eg:
Somewhere at the top of your startup script:
. /etc/rc.status (note dot space /)
. /etc/sysconfig/$0 (note dot space /)
if ($ACTIVE)!=1 then
exit 0;
(note pseudocode, untested...)
In /etc/sysconfig have a script named the same as the init script,
including a line like:
# Is this script active?
ACTIVE=1
Then you can turn the script off and on using the System Configuration
editor in YaST.
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