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Alfresco 3.2 as a Unix Daemon

garcimouche — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:29:14 GMT

Hi there,I can't have Alfresco 3.2 CE running properly as a Unix Daemon under RHEL 5. I followed the steps to build the jsvc tool as described here : http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/setup.html#Unix%20daemon .I've created the following script that I correctly register using chkconfig shell co

Re: Alfresco 3.2 as a Unix Daemon

ofrxnz — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:36:02 GMT

Cifs and FTP use ports below 1024. in RHEL these are privileged ports and non-root users cant touch them.

however, you can configure your firewall for portforwarding

in the alfresco-global.properties file you will need something like this

cifs.enabled=true
cifs.Server.Name=server
cifs.domain=DOMAIN
cifs.hostanounce=true

cifs.broadcast=0.0.0.0
cifs.tcpipSMB.port=1445
cifs.ipv6.enabled=false
cifs.netBIOSSMB.namePort=1137
cifs.netBIOSSMB.datagramPort=1138
cifs.netBIOSSMB.sessionPort=1139

and to configure the firewall….

iptables -I INPUT -p tcp –dport 445 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp –dport 139 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp –dport 137 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp –dport 138 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp –dport 1445 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp –dport 1139 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp –dport 1137 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp –dport 1138 -j ACCEPT

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp –dport 445 -j REDIRECT –to-ports 1445
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp –dport 139 -j REDIRECT –to-ports 1139
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp –dport 137 -j REDIRECT –to-ports 1137
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp –dport 138 -j REDIRECT –to-ports 1138

these changes will not persist a reboot….so when you have it working type "service iptables save"

Re: Alfresco 3.2 as a Unix Daemon

garcimouche — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:10:48 GMT

Thank you for the response, it's working like this . However I still don't understand why I cannot bind to privilege ports when I'm running the service as root (jsvc -user root)??? :?:

Re: Alfresco 3.2 as a Unix Daemon

ofrxnz — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:34:38 GMT

When you start alfresco with the script, which user owns the "java" process with tons of ram? or if yours isnt called java, who owns it?

sorry if you know this but…
i usually find this with the "top" comand and use "shift" and ">" or "shift" and "<" to change the sort

Adam

Re: Alfresco 3.2 as a Unix Daemon

garcimouche — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:34:17 GMT

root

Re: Alfresco 3.2 as a Unix Daemon

ofrxnz — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:43:42 GMT

no idea why it wont let you touch ports <1024…..maybe there is some sort of SElinux or other security measure in place that recognizes its a daemon…..

Another thing could be some other service already has those ports….do you have some sort of file server running on the server?

Re: Alfresco 3.2 as a Unix Daemon

echooooo — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:26:07 GMT

I notice that there hasn't really been any resolution to this problem. I run into what appears to be the exact same issue on Alfresco Community Edition, ver 3.4 when attempting to run as a service under Red Hat (Fedora, actually), as root using the standard "# service alfresco start" command – even with SELinux disabled. However, I do not receive this error (i.e. works OK) if I start the application via the old "# /opt/alfresco/aslfresco.sh start" command.

Re: Alfresco 3.2 as a Unix Daemon

dward — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:24:14 GMT

Solution is in https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-8316 . This is caused by https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XMLCOMMONS-28 . Your script must cd to a writeable directory other than / before running alfresco.

Re: Alfresco 3.2 as a Unix Daemon

scottcarson — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:37:15 GMT

For those of us (i.e. me) who need it spelled out:

Edit the alfresco startup script (mine is /etc/init.d/alfresco ). Specifically, in the start() section, do something like this:

cd /opt/Alfresco
rm tomcat/temp/catalina.pid
./alfresco.sh start "$2"