Question

I am trying to start openOffice as a service on CentOS(non-graphical) server.

soffice -headless -nologo -nofirststartwizard -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp" & > /dev/null 2>&1

How ever I am getting below error

 Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
   or check permissions of your X-Server
   (See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)

[1]+  Done                    soffice -headless -nologo -nofirststartwizard -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp" 

This command works just fine in Ubuntu.
Can you please suggest how can I start OpenOffice as a service on CentOS server?

Answer 1

That works for me on CentOS 5:

1. yum install openoffice.org-headless
2. soffice -headless -accept=”socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;” -nofirststartwizard &