Appendix B - Starting Netarchivesuite automatically

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This page contains a description of how to make the applications start automatically when the operating system is starting.

Currently, when a computer is rebooted, the applications have to be started manually. This describes how to make the operating system start the applications during startup.

Linux

Note: This has been tested with Redhat Enterprise Linux 6, so it probably works on Fedora (Core) as well.

Log in as administrator. Create the following script in '/etc/init.d/' (the name of the script will be referred to as netarkiv):

#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 345 80 20
# description: netarkiv
[ -x /home/USERNAME/ENV_NAME/conf/startall.sh ]  || exit 0
case $1 in
    start)
        su - netarkiv -c 'ENV_NAME/conf/startall.sh'
        ;;
    stop)
        su - netarkiv -c 'ENV_NAME/conf/killall.sh'
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }"
        exit 1
esac

Where USERNAME is the name of the user for the installation, and ENV_NAME is the environment name for NetarchiveSuite (defined in the configuration file).

The following command has to be run for the netarkiv script to be run during start-up and shut-down of Linux:

chkconfig --add netarkiv

The script can also be run manually, by the commands:

service netarkiv stop
service netarkiv start

Windows

This is an example of how to make Windows 2003 Server automatically call a script during start-up. The restart script has to be run, since it might not have closed correctly last time (e.g. power-failure, spontaneous reboot, etc.). This cleans up before the applications are restarted.

Create the service.

Install Microsoft Resource Kit Windows 2003 Server.
Run the program RkTools.exe, and install with standard settings.
Open a Command Prompt, and go to the directory where the Resource Kit has been installed (e.g. C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools).
Install a service with the following command Instsrv <ServiceName> <path to resource kit>\srvany.exe (e.g. Instsrv BitApp "C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\srvany.exe").
Open the registration database with regedit, and find the service through the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<SercviceName>.
Make sure that the start value is 2 (starting automatically).
Create a new 'Key' called Parameters.
In this 'Key' create a new 'String Value' called Application, which contains the complete path to the bat-script (e.g. c:\users\USERNAME\ENV_NAME\conf\restart.bat).
Also within the 'Key' create another 'String Value' called AppDirectory, which should contain a path to the directory where the bat-script is placed (e.g. c:\users\USERNAME\ENV_NAME\conf).

Now the application should automatically start during Windows startup.