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Starting OpenOffice headless as user alfresco

frankg — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:26:22 GMT

Hello,I would like to start OpenOffice 2.4 as user "alfresco". I am using the command:sudo -H -u alfresco /opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice -headless "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" -nofirststartwizard &‍This is the output:[1] 16819[root@alfresco prog

Re: Starting OpenOffice headless as user alfresco

mikeh — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:45:55 GMT

This kind of question is probably better posted over on the OpenOffice.org forums… Anyway, have you made sure you downloaded the headless RPM, that doesn't require an X server (or Xvfb, etc.)..?

Mike

Re: Starting OpenOffice headless as user alfresco

frankg — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:58:49 GMT

Thanks for your reply..
I already installed the headlessRPM. Other ideas?

Re: Starting OpenOffice headless as user alfresco

mikeh — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:42:03 GMT

Only to try the OpenOffice forums instead…

Re: Starting OpenOffice headless as user alfresco

yyovkov — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:02:41 GMT

Hi frankg,

I solved my openoffice issue as I start it separately from tomcat as a service.
What I have done is to create the init.d file called /etc/init.d/soffice with next content:


#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 345 20 80
# description: init.d script for headless openoffice.org (2.3+ for RHEL5 32bit)
#
# processname: soffice
#
# source function library
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
 
RETVAL=0
SOFFICE_PATH='/usr/lib64/openoffice.org/program'
SOFFICE_ARGS='-accept="socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp" -headless'
SOFFICE_PIDFILE=/var/run/soffice.bin.pid
 
start_soffice() {
       echo -n $"Starting OpenOffice.org"
       daemon $SOFFICE_PATH/soffice.bin $SOFFICE_ARGS &
       [ $? -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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Then put the soffice service to start automatically after reboot, and the start it:


root $ chkconfig –add soffice
root $ chkconfi soffice on
root $ service soffice start
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I hope this will help you!

Regards,
Yovko Yovkov
Solitex IBS Ltd.
http://www.solitex.biz