Running openfire as a service

Openfire Openfire Support
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Hello.

Firstly i have to say that my linux experiance is severely limited, but as fate would have it, i am administrating a network with a linux server for a NPO

I am running openfire on a CentOS 4 box, and although openfire runs fine when i run ./openfire.sh from /opt/openfire/bin, i have no idea how to get it installed as a service, i have run redhat-postinstall.sh, but the service is not actually running. how do i get openfire working as a service on my machine

thanks

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Hi,

you may want to take a look at http://wiki.igniterealtime.org/display/WILDFIRE/LinuxInstallationGuide as it discusses the issues which one may hit.

LG

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If you used the rpm install for openfire 3.3.1, then the service will be installed by the rpm. chkconfig --list openfire to see if it is installed and on in runlevel 3 & 5 ) You should see something like

$ chkconfig --list openfire

openfire 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If you are on an older version:

  1. copy <OPENFIRE_HOME>/bin/extra/openfired to /etc/init.d

  2. chkconfig --add openfired

  3. service openfired start

/etc/init.d is the library for service scripts

chkconfig is used to add/remove services from automatically starting

service command starts/stops services.

I had to make a couple of changes to the openfired script to have it work properly

Added start to this line (about line 72)

su -s /bin/sh -c “$OPENFIRE_CMD start” $OPENFIRE_USER > nohup.out 2>&1 &

After the RETVAL=$? (about line 73) , add the following

sleep 5

OPENFIRE_PID=$(pgrep -f “$OPENFIRE_CMD”)

Then on this line (about line 76) change the $! to $OPENFIRE_PID

echo $OPENFIRE_PID > $OPENFIRE_PIDFILE

Finally, in the stop() section there is a typo … it should read OPENFIRE_PIDFILE instead of OPENFILE_PIDFILE (about line 91 )

[ -f “$OPENFIRE_PIDFILE” ] && kill `cat $O