For general consumption, and to give back a little...
I'm running hobbit on several linux servers, most of them Red Hat or variants thereof. Following are the scripts I use to start/stop the hobbit server and client.
You'll need to modify the locations for pidfile and config in the script header comments, plus the values for BBUSER and BBINIT in the scripts themselves.
These are chkconfig friendly scripts. If you're using chkconfig, after creating the files you should:
chkconfig --add hobbitd
chkconfig hobbitd on
chkconfig --list hobbitd
chkconfig --add hobbitc
chkconfig hobbitc on
chkconfig --list hobbitc
Then you can use the 'service' command to control hobbit. See these commands for options:
service hobbitd help
service hobbitc help
I've also attached a modified runclient.sh that adds 'restart' and 'status' options.
Henrik, please feel free to massage these as necessary (for example, so the configure/make commands fill in the necessary blanks) and include them in the snapshots/packages. In the code below I've use {UPPER_CASE} to indicate areas that need to be changed before use on a user's systems.
/etc/init.d/hobbitd
#!/bin/sh
hobbitd - This script starts and stops the Hobbit server daemon
chkconfig: - 87 13
description: Hobbit system monitor server daemon.
processname: hobbitd
pidfile: /{PATH_TO_LOGS}/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.pid
config: /{PATH_TO_HOBBIT}/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
BBUSER="{HOBBIT_USER}" BBINIT="/{PATH_TO_HOBBIT}/server/hobbit.sh"
Pass control off to the hobbit init script. Not perfect
for every possible OS, but it does the job well enough.
/bin/su - $BBUSER -c "$BBINIT \"$1\""
#EOF(hobbitd)
/etc/init.d/hobbitc
#!/bin/sh
hobbitc - This script starts and stops the Hobbit client daemon
chkconfig: - 88 12
description: Hobbit system monitor client daemon.
processname: hobbitc
pidfile: /{PATH_TO_CLIENT_LOGS}/hobbit/clientlaunch.pid
config: /{PATH_TO_HOBBIT}/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
BBUSER="{HOBBIT_USER}" BBINIT="/{PATH_TO_HOBBIT}/client/runclient.sh"
Pass control off to the hobbit init script. Not perfect
for every possible OS, but it does the job well enough.
/bin/su - $BBUSER -c "$BBINIT \"$1\""
#EOF(hobbitc)
{HOBBIT_HOME}/client/runclient.sh
#!/bin/sh #----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
Hobbit client bootup script.
This invokes hobbitlaunch, which in turn runs the Hobbit client and any
extensions configured.
Copyright (C) 2005 Henrik Storner <henrik at hswn.dk>
This program is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL),
version 2. See the file "COPYING" for details.
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
$Id: runclient.sh,v 1.4 2005/08/04 12:16:27 henrik Exp $
Default settings for this client
MACHINEDOTS="uname -n" # This systems hostname
BBOSTYPE="uname -s | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'" # This systems operating
system in lowercase
mod(smith.js.8 at pg.com)20050821
note: this was lifted from the server hobbit.sh script
case "uname -s" in
"SunOS")
ID=/usr/xpg4/bin/id
;;
*)
ID=id
;;
esac
if test $ID -un != {HOBBIT_USER}
then
echo "Hobbit client must be started as the {HOBBIT_USER} user"
exit 1
fi
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Commandline mods for the defaults
while test "$1" != ""
do
case "$1" in
--hostname=*)
MACHINEDOTS="echo $1 | sed -e's/--hostname=//'"
;;
--os=*)
BBOSTYPE="echo $1 | sed -e's/--os=//' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'"
;;
--help)
echo "Usage: $0 [--hostname=CLIENTNAME]
[--os=rhel3|linux22] start|stop"
exit 0
;;
start)
CMD=$1
;;
stop)
CMD=$1
;;
mod(smith.js.8 at pg.com)20050821
restart)
CMD=$1
;;
status)
CMD=$1
;;end(smith.js.8 at pg.com)20050821
esac
shiftdone
OLDDIR="pwd"
cd "dirname $0"
HOBBITCLIENTHOME="pwd"
cd "$OLDDIR"
MACHINE="echo $MACHINEDOTS | sed -e's/\./,/g'"
export MACHINE MACHINEDOTS BBOSTYPE HOBBITCLIENTHOME
case "$CMD" in "start") if test ! -w $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs; then echo "Cannot write to the $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs directory" exit 1 fi if test ! -w $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/tmp; then echo "Cannot write to the $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/tmp directory" exit 1 fi
$HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=$HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/clientlaunch.cfg --log=$HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/clientlaunch.log --pidfile=$HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/clientlaunch.pid if test $? -eq 0; then echo "Hobbit client for $BBOSTYPE started on $MACHINEDOTS" else echo "Hobbit client startup failed" fi ;;
"stop")
mod(smith.js.8 at pg.com)20050821-one liner-change test from -f to -s
#if test -f $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/clientlaunch.pid; then
if test -s $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/clientlaunch.pid; then
kill `cat $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/clientlaunch.pid`
echo "Hobbit client stopped"
else
echo "Hobbit client not running"
fi
;;mod(smith.js.8 at pg.com)20050821
"restart")
if test -s $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/clientlaunch.pid
then
$0 stop
sleep 10
$0 start
else
echo "Hobbit client does not appear to be running,
starting it"
$0 start
fi
;;
"status")
if test -s $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/clientlaunch.pid
then
kill -0 cat $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/clientlaunch.pid
if test $? -eq 0
then
echo "Hobbit client (clientlaunch) running with
PID cat $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/clientlaunch.pid"
else
echo "Hobbit client not running, removing stale
PID file"
rm -f $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/clientlaunch.pid
fi
else
echo "Hobbit client (clientlaunch) does not appear to be
running"
fi
;;
*) echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|restart|status" break;
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esac
exit 0
#EOF(runclient.sh)