Question

I am new to Linux,I need help on the following..

My application has been running in windows as a service using wrapper for a quite long period and now I want to bring it on Debian OS. After googled for a while,I find wrapper package for linux environment too,and tried installed the testWrapper comes along with the wrapper Package, and I can see the installed stuff under etc/init.d directory, but when I tried to start the service it reports me a error as follows “wrapper: 1: Syntax error: “(” unexpected”,.
the command which i used to install is sudo sh testWrapper install
and for starting is sudo sh testWrapper start
and for the clarification of you guys, I don’t have any missing parantheses in the wrapper.conf
please help me out on this..

Thanks in Advance

Kallathiyan

Answer 1

The service wrapper of choice for CollabNet Subversion Edge I chose was based on the Java Service Wrapper from tanukisoftware as it is open-source and well documented… http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/launch-nix.html. Download the community edition if your software is open-source or buy their license.

In order to debug this error, first try to get the service running without anything configured… the current version of the published Subversion Edge that runs on Ubuntu without a problem.

Subversion Edge open-source version has its pre-configured version located here. The good news is that if you provide your software as download, you can package this Wrapper in a way that users can just install the service… For instance, running the command “csvn” without any parameter from the “bin” directory in the given directory “CSVN_HOME” will show the available commands…

$ cd CSVN_HOME/bin
$ csvn
Usage: ./csvn { console | start | stop | restart | condrestart | status | install | remove | dump }

Users can then install the service by just running the command with the “install” parameter or simply “start”, which will install the scripts under /etc/init.d… (with sudo for that matter) or if the user just want to run the application they can just use “console”.