topic OpenOffice connection lost periodically in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/openoffice-connection-lost-periodically/m-p/248482#M201612 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Does anyone else find that periodically, the OpenOffice connection is lost?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>16:39:00,009 ERROR [org.alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester] The OpenOffice connection has been lost.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have changed tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties to include ooo.enabled=true, and the ooo.exe path there is correct, but still I find that randomly, OpenOffice will just stop running, and while Alfresco notices this, it doesn't do anything about it. And then everyone's document uploads fail to produce thumbnails.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>As a kludgy fix, I'm using a once-every-five-minutes cron job (*/5 * * * * /path/to/cronjob), which I'll share below in case it's useful to anyone, but does anyone have a more elegant solution? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm running 3.4.d on CentOS 5.5, x64, with the bundled OpenOffice.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>#!/bin/sh<BR /><BR />running=`ps aux | grep "/opt/alfresco-3.4.d/openoffice/program/soffice.bi[n]" | wc -l`<BR /><BR />if [ $running != 0 ];<BR />then<BR />/usr/bin/logger&nbsp; "OpenOffice running at $(date +'%F %H:%M')"<BR />else<BR />/usr/bin/logger&nbsp; "OpenOffice restarted at $(date +'%F %H:%M')"<BR />/opt/alfresco-3.4.d/openoffice/scripts/openoffice_ctl.sh<BR />fi<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>(Obviously, change /opt/alfresco-3.4.d to the correct path for your system. The [n] prevents the grep statement from matching itself. )</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:49:37 GMT nadaoneal 2011-04-01T21:49:37Z OpenOffice connection lost periodically https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/openoffice-connection-lost-periodically/m-p/248482#M201612 Does anyone else find that periodically, the OpenOffice connection is lost?16:39:00,009 ERROR [org.alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester] The OpenOffice connection has been lost.I have changed tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties to include ooo.enabled=true, and the ooo.exe path there Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:49:37 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/openoffice-connection-lost-periodically/m-p/248482#M201612 nadaoneal 2011-04-01T21:49:37Z Re: OpenOffice connection lost periodically https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/openoffice-connection-lost-periodically/m-p/248483#M201613 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've just started seeing this too.&nbsp; I was planning to use your script as a work-around, but found that the "/opt/alfresco-3.4.d/openoffice/scripts/openoffice_ctl.sh" script will actually only start openoffice if an instance isn't running, so instead I'm going to run the following directly in cron:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>/opt/alfresco-3.4.d/openoffice/scripts/openoffice_ctl.sh start<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE></BODY></HTML> Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:37:52 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/openoffice-connection-lost-periodically/m-p/248483#M201613 ekimnosneb 2011-04-20T13:37:52Z