On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Michael Gawrychowski <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, I start the ofbiz app by ssh-ing to the server and typing in
> ./ant start and in a few seconds I have it working. However every time I
> close the terminal window the application stops working as well. Why is
> that and how do I get it to work so it works all the time?
>
That is basic unix process management (and I'd assume it is similar on
Windows).
When you start a process from a terminal, or commandline session, that
process is a child of the process in which you started it. In your case,
the ofbiz process is a child of the terminal window's process. Killing
(closing) the parent kills (terminates) the child.
What you have to do is detach from the application once it has started. To
take a trivial example, my favourite editor is Emacs. If, in a terminal, I
execute 'emacs', emacs starts, and the terminal no longer has a cursor. I
work in Emacs, save my document, close emacs, and then the cursor reappears
in the terminal. But, if I close the terminal before I finish with emacs,
emacs is closed also. Now, if I execute 'emacs&' (notice the trialing
'&'), I can continue to work in Emacs even if the terminal is closed for
whatever reason; and this is because I told the terminal to start emacs and
then detach from it.
It has been a while since I looked, but I would expect that there is a
script with it that will start ofbiz as a service. If you can't find it,
try starting it and detaching from it.
HTH
Ted
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R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D.
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