java -jar glassfish/modules/glassfish.jar should be sufficient to start
glassfish. Let me put it this way, I have not seen it not working.
Thanks,
Sahoo
On Tuesday 07 February 2012 08:01 PM, john.lister_at_kickstone.com wrote:
> Hi, not sure if this is the best place to post. I noticed that one of
> the things to do is get glassfish to run under upstart (the daemon
> management system with most flavours of linux). I've managed to achieve
> this but with a couple of hacks that maybe could be resolved in the
> glassfish code.
>
> The main problem with upstart is that it relies on the unix fork
> operation which of course isn't possible in java, therefore you can't
> simply use the asadmin start-domain command to bring up glassfish as
> this spawns a separate process which upstart can't track.
>
> To get around this, I simply call the main glassfish bootloader
> directly passing all the params into it as would be generated by
> asadmin, but this isn't very clean or future proof. It would be nice if
> there was an option to start-domain that could spit out the command
> used to start glassfish based on the config files and other settings
> rather than manually generating it.
>
> Secondly glassfish waits for what looks like a password or other
> security token to be entered via the console followed by a carriage
> return. Again I've hacked a method to get around this by simply echoing
> the information + carriage return to the java command and wrapped this
> all up in a shell script. This isn't ideal and slightly complicates
> things. I couldn't find any way of disabling this wait for input while
> going through the code - the only promising option (-read-stdin)
> doesn't seem to do anything when set to false.
>
> Any hints or suggestions about how this could be further improved?
>
> The scripts are below:
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>
>
> /etc/init/glassfish.conf
> =============================
> start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=eth0)
> stop on [!2345]
> respawn
> respawn limit 10 30
> pre-stop exec /opt/glassfishv3/bin/asadmin stop-domain
> exec /opt/glassfishv3/bin/startup.sh
> post-start exec /opt/glassfishv3/bin/asadmin version
> =============================
>
> /opt/glassfishv3/bin/startup.sh
> =================================
> #!/bin/sh
> echo -e \n | java -cp
> /opt/glassfishv3/glassfish/modules/glassfish.jar........
> =================================