SUMMARY: startup of iplanet web server - secure instance

Thanks to all who helped: (apologies if any names are inadvertently
missing)

Lee Trujillo [lee.trujillo@navidec.com]
Andrew J Caines [A.J.Caines@halplant.com]
Josh N/A [endlessvortex@hotmail.com]
Kai-Thorsten Hambrecht [kai@hambrecht.org]
manjeet. singh [manjeet.singh@eds.com]
Andrew Stueve [andy.stueve@proponix.com]

What each of them suggested / worked for me was:
Edit the start script in the secure instance of iplanet so that it gets
the feed of the password from a file (password.conf) maintained under
only root permissions. The line in the start script:


        -start)
                ./$PRODUCT_BIN -d $PRODUCT_SUBDIR/config $@
                if test $? -ne 0 ; then
                        exit 1
                fi
                ;;

should look like this:-

        -start)
                ./$PRODUCT_BIN -d $PRODUCT_SUBDIR/config $@ <
password.conf
                if test $? -ne 0 ; then
                        exit 1
                fi
                ;;
or modify to look like this:-

        -start)
                (echo 'YOUR_PASSWD') | ./$PRODUCT_BIN -d
$PRODUCT_SUBDIR/config $@
                if test $? -ne 0 ; then
                        exit 1
                fi
                ;;

Alternatively, to start up the secure iplanet instance we can specify:
echo "password" | ./start

Also thanks to Andrew J Caines [A.J.Caines@halplant.com] for explaining
the funda of  ">logfile.log 2>&1 &".

These definitely work very well and m-now my startup scripts are running
perfectly.
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Here's my original query:
On Monday 16 December 2002 09:11, you wrote:
> hi all,
>
> We use iPlanet Web server 4.1. We have 2 secure instances of the
server
> installed. From the browser GUI I can easily start the secure
instances.
> But I am trying to do the same using scripts, so that when the machine
> starts up/ reboots I would have all my servers running by default. But
> somehow only the non secure instances run and the secure instances
fail
> to startup although no error message is thrown: I am pasting the
script
> here, please tell me where I am going wrong...
> -------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/sh
>
> cd /apps/iplanet/https-admserv
> echo "Starting iPlanet Admin server at `date`" >> adminserverstart.log
> ../start >> adminserverstart.log
> chown webadmin:web adminserverstart.log
> chmod 0644 adminserverstart.log
>
> cd /apps/iplanet/https-lloyds-docs-232
> echo "Starting https-lloyds-docs-232 instance at `date`" >>
> web1start.log
> ../start >> web1start.log
> chown webadmin:web web1start.log
> chmod 0644 web1start.log
>
> cd /apps/iplanet/https-lloyds-securedocs-232
> echo "Starting https-lloyds-securedocs-232 instance at `date`" >>
> web1securestart.log
> ../start -start lloydsoflondon >> web1securestart.log
> chown webadmin:web web1securestart.log
> chmod 0644 web1securestart.log
>
> cd /apps/iplanet/https-lloyds-cmsdocs-232
> echo "Starting https-lloyds-cmsdocs-232 instance at `date`" >>
> cmsstart.log
> ../start >> cmsstart.log
> chown webadmin:web cmsstart.log
> chmod 0644 cmsstart.log
>
> cd /apps/iplanet/https-lloyds-cmssecuredocs-232
> echo "Starting https-lloyds-cmssecuredocs-232 instance at `date`" >>
> cmssecurestart.log
> ../start >> cmssecurestart.log
> chown webadmin:web cmssecurestart.log
> chmod 0644 cmssecurestart.log
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> regards,
> Anoop



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