Re: Ideas on a rc.d kind of directory

[Jason Dillon <ja...@planet57.com>]

FYI, I've gotten my POC using GShell for this ready...  I'm planning  
on merging the changes into server/trunk today, though I'm not going  
to hook it up to the default assemblies just yet.  Instead I'm going  
to create a new assembly to allow folks to play with it first and  
then we can talk about making it the default.  More email on how all  
this stuff works in a wee bit.

Cheers,

--jason


On Jul 19, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Jeff Genender wrote:

> Lets let Jason chime in here as I think he volunteered to stitch a lot
> of this together.
>
> Jeff
>
> Donald Woods wrote:
>> Could we use Jakarta commons-launcher, which uses a subset of ANT?
>> We'd probably have to make a few changes, so it would use the  
>> existing
>> manifest settings in the server/client.jar and to handle our multiple
>> server instance directory structure.....
>>
>>
>> -Donald
>>
>> Jeff Genender wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As we move forward and we integrate with more and more 3rd party
>>> products, we will need the ability to be able to change an  
>>> environment
>>> variable through a plugin, or add a commandline JAVA_OPTS, etc.
>>>
>>> Currently our startup scripts call the setjavaenv.sh to set  
>>> environment
>>> properties.  It would really be nice to have the ability to have a
>>> "scripts" directory, where all of the scripts get executed before
>>> Geronimo is launched.  Why do we want this?
>>>
>>> As we grow in our plugins, they will need to set environment or java
>>> options set before running G.  They may also have a need to start  
>>> or run
>>> other outside processes  that are not a part of G.
>>>
>>> It would be great to allow plugins to install an rc script that gets
>>> executed to do activities before and perhaps after G is run?
>>>
>>> I would propose we create a scripts directory under bin or under var
>>> that could be similar to init.d, and have it called with start/stop,
>>> etc.  This way plugins can install specific scripts in these  
>>> directories
>>> for execution.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>>