Comments on: ColdFusion Batch Scripts – For Linux

By: Richard Reece

Richard Reece — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:14:37 +0000

Actually, the bash script above only allows the services to be started and you have to be logged on as root in order to start the services. Then Apache and CF8 run with their own users. Apache runs with the ‘apache’ user and CF8 runs with ‘nobody’ by default.

To stop them from starting at boot, you would use the commands:
>chkconfig httpd off
>chkconfig coldfusion_8 off

… and then run the bash to manually start them.

*The above commands are for Red Hat and their variants, not sure about Ubuntu.

By: David Tucker

David Tucker — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:48:05 +0000

The scripts are installed if you use the default setup, but they are not installed if you choose the Multiple Instance (w/JRun) setup.

By: Tom Chiverton

Tom Chiverton — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:20:58 +0000

You could make use of the actual Adobe scripts stored in /etc/init.d/ which would save the typing.
I’m not sure these get installed unless you choose the ‘start CF at start up’ option in the installer, in which case you can choose that then
rm /etc/rc.d/rc*/*coldfusion_*
or use chkconfig (or your Linux’s varient) to set it not to start itself.

By: Mike Henke

Mike Henke — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:14:27 +0000

i guess I had root not [username] in the script to be able to close the term session and still be able to run cf.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:08:14 +0000

Thanks Jim. I am not much on unix commands but I was was using gksudo -d -k -S -u [username] command to start my cf server. I took your script and changed it around a little, now it doesn’t prompt me for a password and I can close the term session when finished running. Running it is just ./cfstart.sh

#!/bin/bash
gksudo -d -k -S /etc/init.d/apache2 start
gksudo -d -k -S -u [username] /opt/jrun4/bin/jrun start cfusion

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:49:35 +0000

David – great point. Yes this is certainly intended ONLY for development.

By: David Tucker

David Tucker — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:35:26 +0000

These scripts would work great on a development box, but if you ever deployed this on a develop machine, I would recommend looking at the scripts that were created by Steven Erat. Just launching CF as a privileged user can create some security issues.

http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2005/7/15/CFLinuxBootScripts

These scripts are written for a RedHat flavor, but could easily be modified.