OpenOffice Service Script:
After the OpenOffice instalation, if there is no startup script for OpenOffice you can follow the steps shown below to make a startup script.
First of all you have to locate the soffice binary file.
[root@server ~]# locate soffice.bin
/usr/lib/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin
Create a file with the following contents in /etc/init.d/ directory. Here i am creating a file named 'soffice'.
# vim /etc/init.d/soffice
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#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 345 20 80
# description: init.d script for headless openoffice.org (2.3+ for RHEL5 64bit)
#
# processname: soffice
#
# source function library
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
RETVAL=0
SOFFICE_PATH='/usr/lib/openoffice.org3/program'
SOFFICE_ARGS='-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager -headless -nofirststartwizard -nologo'
SOFFICE_PIDFILE=/var/run/soffice.bin.pid
start_soffice() {
echo -n $"Starting OpenOffice.org"
$SOFFICE_PATH/soffice.bin $SOFFICE_ARGS >/dev/null 2>&1 &
[ $? -eq 0 ] && echo_success || echo_failure
pidof soffice.bin > $SOFFICE_PIDFILE
echo
}
start() {
start_soffice
}
stop() {
echo -n $"Stopping OpenOffice"
killproc soffice.bin
echo
}
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
stop
start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac
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To give executable permission to the script.
# chmod +x /etc/init.d/soffice
To add the script 'soffice' to runlevel programs.
# chkconfig --add soffice
To start the 'soffice' service in startup.
# chkconfig soffice on
[root@server ~]# /etc/init.d/soffice restart
Stopping OpenOffice [ OK ]
Starting OpenOffice.org [ OK ]
You can verify whether the service is running or not by using the following command.
root@server ~$ ps aux | grep office
root 3529 0.0 0.0 4140 640 pts/4 S 01:28 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/soffice -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager -headless -nofirststartwizard -nologo
root 3546 0.5 3.2 580584 65116 pts/4 Sl 01:28 0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager -headless -nofirststartwizard -nologo
root 3584 0.0 0.0 7668 820 pts/5 S+ 01:29 0:00 grep --color=auto office
