Re: Starting OfBiz at boot

[Craig Parker]

I'm not sure what I was using in May. Other that some stuff at the end 
(and I forgot to make new notes) my rundown worked a couple weeks to get 
13.07.03 up and going on my laptop. 16.11.01 on that same laptop though, 
no love.


I'm on Mint (Ubuntu, essentially) but used the Debian stuff for the 
13.x.x installs. Tried both Ubuntu and Debian on the 16.


I thought I'd have this weekend to play with it. Maybe next weekend. I 
want to start on a fresh box.



On 12/02/2016 03:41 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

Craig,

Could you tell us what you used in May (OFBiz version, scripts 
changes, etc.)


This is order to amend 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/How+to+run+OFBiz+as+a+Service 
if needed (I guess it's needed ;))


Thanks

Jacques


Le 02/12/2016 à 04:34, Craig Parker a écrit :
I got this going finally back in May, but downloaded 16 tonight and 
can't fire it up. Here's how I got there a few months back...


http://65.175.244.105:31415/ofbizdocs/?p=352


On 05/03/2016 09:43 PM, Craig Parker wrote:

I've been following along on this site:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/How+to+run+OFBiz+as+a+Service 



and can /etc/init.t/ofbiz start/stop/restart as root, but it won't 
fire up at boot. Before I edited /etc/init.d/ofbiz, there was a line 
that said "OFBIZ_USER=ofbiz" When I tried, as root to run 
/etc/init.d/ofbiz start, I'd get an error:

Starting OFBiz: failure

Only users root or ofbiz should start/stop the application

Like I said, I can start it now manually as root, but it won't fire 
up as boot. In /var/log/boot.log, I see that same error, except now 
it says "...Only users root or root..."


What'd I miss? I'm running Ubuntu Server 14.04 just using the 
default built in database at the moment.

Re: Starting OfBiz at boot

[Michael Brohl]

Sorry for hijacking this thread, I will open a new thread in the dev 
list for this.


Please do not answer here for the documentation topic.

Regards,

Michael

Am 02.12.16 um 11:00 schrieb Michael Brohl:
We should indeed have an additional Wiki page where the deployment, 
running and hosting informations for releases 16.x + are documented.


Which brings me to an idea: we should see if we can reorganise the 
documentation to have an entry point by release/version so that all 
informations are consistent within a release. We may have other 
impacting changes in the project and we should enable users to easily 
find all informations.


That would be a good start for contributors who want to contribute 
apart from code.


Regards,

Michael


Am 02.12.16 um 09:41 schrieb Jacques Le Roux:

Craig,

Could you tell us what you used in May (OFBiz version, scripts 
changes, etc.)


This is order to amend 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/How+to+run+OFBiz+as+a+Service 
if needed (I guess it's needed ;))


Thanks

Jacques


Le 02/12/2016 à 04:34, Craig Parker a écrit :
I got this going finally back in May, but downloaded 16 tonight and 
can't fire it up. Here's how I got there a few months back...


http://65.175.244.105:31415/ofbizdocs/?p=352


On 05/03/2016 09:43 PM, Craig Parker wrote:

I've been following along on this site:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/How+to+run+OFBiz+as+a+Service 



and can /etc/init.t/ofbiz start/stop/restart as root, but it won't 
fire up at boot. Before I edited /etc/init.d/ofbiz, there was a 
line that said "OFBIZ_USER=ofbiz" When I tried, as root to run 
/etc/init.d/ofbiz start, I'd get an error:

Starting OFBiz: failure

Only users root or ofbiz should start/stop the application

Like I said, I can start it now manually as root, but it won't fire 
up as boot. In /var/log/boot.log, I see that same error, except now 
it says "...Only users root or root..."


What'd I miss? I'm running Ubuntu Server 14.04 just using the 
default built in database at the moment.













smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Starting OfBiz at boot

[Michael Brohl]

We should indeed have an additional Wiki page where the deployment, 
running and hosting informations for releases 16.x + are documented.


Which brings me to an idea: we should see if we can reorganise the 
documentation to have an entry point by release/version so that all 
informations are consistent within a release. We may have other 
impacting changes in the project and we should enable users to easily 
find all informations.


That would be a good start for contributors who want to contribute apart 
from code.


Regards,

Michael


Am 02.12.16 um 09:41 schrieb Jacques Le Roux:

Craig,

Could you tell us what you used in May (OFBiz version, scripts 
changes, etc.)


This is order to amend 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/How+to+run+OFBiz+as+a+Service 
if needed (I guess it's needed ;))


Thanks

Jacques


Le 02/12/2016 à 04:34, Craig Parker a écrit :
I got this going finally back in May, but downloaded 16 tonight and 
can't fire it up. Here's how I got there a few months back...


http://65.175.244.105:31415/ofbizdocs/?p=352


On 05/03/2016 09:43 PM, Craig Parker wrote:

I've been following along on this site:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/How+to+run+OFBiz+as+a+Service 



and can /etc/init.t/ofbiz start/stop/restart as root, but it won't 
fire up at boot. Before I edited /etc/init.d/ofbiz, there was a line 
that said "OFBIZ_USER=ofbiz" When I tried, as root to run 
/etc/init.d/ofbiz start, I'd get an error:

Starting OFBiz: failure

Only users root or ofbiz should start/stop the application

Like I said, I can start it now manually as root, but it won't fire 
up as boot. In /var/log/boot.log, I see that same error, except now 
it says "...Only users root or root..."


What'd I miss? I'm running Ubuntu Server 14.04 just using the 
default built in database at the moment.










smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Starting OfBiz at boot

[Jacques Le Roux]

Craig,

Could you tell us what you used in May (OFBiz version, scripts changes, etc.)

This is order to amend 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/How+to+run+OFBiz+as+a+Service 
if needed (I guess it's needed ;))

Thanks

Jacques


Le 02/12/2016 à 04:34, Craig Parker a écrit :

I got this going finally back in May, but downloaded 16 tonight and can't fire 
it up. Here's how I got there a few months back...

http://65.175.244.105:31415/ofbizdocs/?p=352


On 05/03/2016 09:43 PM, Craig Parker wrote:

I've been following along on this site:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/How+to+run+OFBiz+as+a+Service

and can /etc/init.t/ofbiz start/stop/restart as root, but it won't fire up at boot. Before I edited /etc/init.d/ofbiz, there was a line that said 
"OFBIZ_USER=ofbiz" When I tried, as root to run /etc/init.d/ofbiz start, I'd get an error:

Starting OFBiz: failure

Only users root or ofbiz should start/stop the application

Like I said, I can start it now manually as root, but it won't fire up as boot. In /var/log/boot.log, I see that same error, except now it says 
"...Only users root or root..."


What'd I miss? I'm running Ubuntu Server 14.04 just using the default built in 
database at the moment.

Re: Starting OfBiz at boot

[Craig Parker]

I got this going finally back in May, but downloaded 16 tonight and 
can't fire it up. Here's how I got there a few months back...


http://65.175.244.105:31415/ofbizdocs/?p=352


On 05/03/2016 09:43 PM, Craig Parker wrote:

I've been following along on this site:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/How+to+run+OFBiz+as+a+Service 



and can /etc/init.t/ofbiz start/stop/restart as root, but it won't 
fire up at boot. Before I edited /etc/init.d/ofbiz, there was a line 
that said "OFBIZ_USER=ofbiz" When I tried, as root to run 
/etc/init.d/ofbiz start, I'd get an error:

Starting OFBiz: failure

Only users root or ofbiz should start/stop the application

Like I said, I can start it now manually as root, but it won't fire up 
as boot. In /var/log/boot.log, I see that same error, except now it 
says "...Only users root or root..."


What'd I miss? I'm running Ubuntu Server 14.04 just using the default 
built in database at the moment.

Re: Starting OfBiz at boot

[Jacques Le Roux]

Le 05/05/2016 à 09:44, G.W. Haywood a écrit :

Hi there,

On Wed, 4 May 2016, Craig Parker wrote:


... /var/log/boot.log tells me:
Starting OFBiz: failure
Only users root or root should start/stop the application


When I'm
working on Ofbiz testing I set one 'xterm' aside to start Ofbiz,
scroll a log, and stop it (with CTRL-C) when I can't take any more.  I
use a slightly modified ./tools/startofbiz.sh to start it, but you
could do what's suggested in the Ofbiz README ('./ant start') instead.
If you use the startofbiz.sh script, the shutdown is more graceful on
exit with CTRL-C.


Thanks for the help Ged,

Just a comment about
>the shutdown is more graceful on exit with CTRL-C.

If you start with
'./ant start'
you can stop cleanly with
'./ant stop'

Globally './ant -p' is your friend

Jacques


73,
Ged.

Re: Starting OfBiz at boot

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Wed, 4 May 2016, Craig Parker wrote:


... /var/log/boot.log tells me:
Starting OFBiz: failure
Only users root or root should start/stop the application


To begin with you need to learn a little about Linux permissions
and what effects they have.  I honestly don't think you've enough
experience to be writing shell scripts to start things like Ofbiz
just yet.

The distribution packaging will make all sorts of choices which may
not necessarily be right for your situation at present and I would
recommend that you don't try to start Ofbiz automatically at boot
until you're more familiar with your system.  There are as you have
seen scripts to start it in the Ofbiz directory and its 'tools/'
sub-directory which you can run from the command line.  When I'm
working on Ofbiz testing I set one 'xterm' aside to start Ofbiz,
scroll a log, and stop it (with CTRL-C) when I can't take any more.  I
use a slightly modified ./tools/startofbiz.sh to start it, but you
could do what's suggested in the Ofbiz README ('./ant start') instead.
If you use the startofbiz.sh script, the shutdown is more graceful on
exit with CTRL-C.

It's only necessary to run Ofbiz as a privileged user (root in this
case) if you have decided to have Ofbiz listening on a port number
which is less than 1024.  Webservers (and Ofbiz has a Web interface,
so that includes Ofbiz) usually listen on port 80.  For any process
to listen to port 80, a privileged user needs to start that process.

While I'm working on testing, I use the default higher-number ports
(8080 for Ofbiz itself and 8443 for the admin interface, instead of 80
and 443), and I don't run it as root.  You can even have more than one
Ofbiz running, if they listen on different ports (and most likely use
different databases) , so you could run a production Ofbiz on port 80
and a development Ofbiz on port 8080.  Don't do it. :)

If your ofbiz directory is owned and read/write only for root (just
because that's how you installed it, perhaps if you installed it from
a distribution package) then I'd suggest for testing that you don't
use that installation at all, and run one as the non-privileged user.
You could start again using one of the tarballs provided on the Ofbiz
Website.  It's an easy installation to do, although it takes a lot of
CPU cycles.  If you run the install as a normal unprivileged user
you'll have what you need all set up for you.  You've probably found
that all you need is a single directory (for example something like
/home/user/ofbiz/) to unpack everything, Ofbiz will run happily in
there almost completely self-contained without any need for putting
things elsewhere in the system.  You will of course need the support
of a few system libraries and Java, but you have those already.

73,
Ged.

Re: Starting OfBiz at boot

[Craig Parker]

Well, no love there. So I'm back where I started. /var/log/boot.log 
tells me:

Starting OFBiz: failure

Only users root or root should start/stop the application


If anyone has any idea, I'm all ears.

On 05/03/2016 09:53 PM, Craig Parker wrote:
Well, I just stumbled on ./tools/rc.ofbiz.for.debian and found another 
line like that. Changed it and rebooted, but saw after that there was 
also an Ubuntu version or the file, so maybe it works, maybe not.


On 05/03/2016 09:50 PM, Chris Clark wrote:

Jesus autocorrect and its fun ways. That's "dabbled in ofbiz" and "sys v
init scripts"
On May 3, 2016 8:48 PM, rip...@gmail.com wrote:

Don't know if I'm helping or hurting but I dabbled in off is for a 
moment
before I switched to magneto, and newer versions of linux use systemd 
and

stray away for sys v unit scripts.  I got off is to start at startup, by
creating a modified systemd service script.  Google systems services 
I guess

On May 3, 2016 8:44 PM, "Craig Parker"  wrote:

I've been following along on this site:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/How+to+run+OFBiz+as+a+Service 



and can /etc/init.t/ofbiz start/stop/restart as root, but it won't 
fire up

at boot. Before I edited /etc/init.d/ofbiz, there was a line that said
"OFBIZ_USER=ofbiz" When I tried, as root to run /etc/init.d/ofbiz start,
I'd get an error:
Starting OFBiz: failure

Only users root or ofbiz should start/stop the application

Like I said, I can start it now manually as root, but it won't fire 
up as

boot. In /var/log/boot.log, I see that same error, except now it says
"...Only users root or root..."

What'd I miss? I'm running Ubuntu Server 14.04 just using the default 
built

in database at the moment.

Re: Starting OfBiz at boot

[Craig Parker]

Well, I just stumbled on ./tools/rc.ofbiz.for.debian and found another 
line like that. Changed it and rebooted, but saw after that there was 
also an Ubuntu version or the file, so maybe it works, maybe not.


On 05/03/2016 09:50 PM, Chris Clark wrote:

Jesus autocorrect and its fun ways.  That's "dabbled in ofbiz" and "sys v
init scripts"
On May 3, 2016 8:48 PM, rip...@gmail.com wrote:

Don't know if I'm helping or hurting but I dabbled in off is for a moment
before I switched to magneto, and newer versions of linux use systemd and
stray away for sys v unit scripts.  I got off is to start at startup, by
creating a modified systemd service script.  Google systems services I guess
On May 3, 2016 8:44 PM, "Craig Parker"  wrote:

I've been following along on this site:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/How+to+run+OFBiz+as+a+Service

and can /etc/init.t/ofbiz start/stop/restart as root, but it won't fire up
at boot. Before I edited /etc/init.d/ofbiz, there was a line that said
"OFBIZ_USER=ofbiz" When I tried, as root to run /etc/init.d/ofbiz start,
I'd get an error:
Starting OFBiz: failure

Only users root or ofbiz should start/stop the application

Like I said, I can start it now manually as root, but it won't fire up as
boot. In /var/log/boot.log, I see that same error, except now it says
"...Only users root or root..."

What'd I miss? I'm running Ubuntu Server 14.04 just using the default built
in database at the moment.

Re: Starting OfBiz at boot

[Chris Clark]

Jesus autocorrect and its fun ways.  That's "dabbled in ofbiz" and "sys v
init scripts"
On May 3, 2016 8:48 PM, rip...@gmail.com wrote:

Don't know if I'm helping or hurting but I dabbled in off is for a moment
before I switched to magneto, and newer versions of linux use systemd and
stray away for sys v unit scripts.  I got off is to start at startup, by
creating a modified systemd service script.  Google systems services I guess
On May 3, 2016 8:44 PM, "Craig Parker"  wrote:

I've been following along on this site:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/How+to+run+OFBiz+as+a+Service

and can /etc/init.t/ofbiz start/stop/restart as root, but it won't fire up
at boot. Before I edited /etc/init.d/ofbiz, there was a line that said
"OFBIZ_USER=ofbiz" When I tried, as root to run /etc/init.d/ofbiz start,
I'd get an error:
Starting OFBiz: failure

Only users root or ofbiz should start/stop the application

Like I said, I can start it now manually as root, but it won't fire up as
boot. In /var/log/boot.log, I see that same error, except now it says
"...Only users root or root..."

What'd I miss? I'm running Ubuntu Server 14.04 just using the default built
in database at the moment.