Hey Coolcat,

Thanks for posting a good link.

Cheers,

Ryan

@hosdes:

You have to restart it because your server does a reboot every night? Everything you need to do is to configure it to start and shutsdown automatically. With the chkconfig command you can easily control in which runlevels an application should be started or stopped.

Check which is the current setting:

shell> chkconfig --list openfired

Ensure Openfire does run in the current runlevel:

shell> chkconfig openfired on

However, if this does not work, you can also do it by hand. This is my configuration. I should say that I'm not using the RPM packet.

[backup@jabber rc0.d]$ ls -l /etc/init.d/openfired
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Dec  9 13:51 /etc/init.d/openfired -> /opt/openfire/bin/extra/openfired
[backup@jabber rc0.d]$ ls -l /etc/rc?.d/*openfired
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Dec  9 13:51 /etc/rc0.d/K01openfired -> ../init.d/openfired
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Dec  9 13:31 /etc/rc3.d/S70openfired -> ../init.d/openfired
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Dec  9 13:43 /etc/rc6.d/K01openfired -> ../init.d/openfired

/etc/rcX is the directory for runlevel X. All scripts (or links) there are executed in alphabetical order. K**** stands for "kill" and S***** for "start". Ensure that dependencys like network or your database do start before and stop after Openfire.

Message was edited by: Coolcat

Hm, you should find out that first

E.g. you could write a script that writes current time to an logfile and run this via cron-job every minute.

Script:

#! /bin/sh

logFile="/home/coolcat/system.log"
logDateFormat="[%d.%m.%Y - %k:%M:%S]"

echo "$(date "+$logDateFormat") system running" 1>>$logFile 2>>$logFile

Obviously the script will write log to /home/coolcat/system.log

Make sure your script is executeable.

Now execute the following command, this will output your current cron-jobs to file "cron" in current directory. Maybe there are no cron-jobs yet, then the file will be empty.

shell> crontab -l >cron

Open this file with your editor and add the following line. This will execute the script every minute.

* * * * * /home/coolcat/your_scripts_name

Now import the "cron" file again:

shell> crontab cron