[Wrapper-user] PATCH: Patch to address minor issues with sh.script.in in version 3.2.3

[Chris D. <chr...@pa...>]

Hi,

We've been using Java Service Wrapper as a host for a our reasonably
complex server based print quota application ( http://www.papercut.biz/
) on the Windows platform for some time with great success.  On Linux
and Mac we've used in-house rc scripts and Launchd respectively.
Recently we've hit a few 'hung server' issues on Linux.  We've been very
impressed with the reliability on Windows so we've decided to replace
our rc scripts with Java Service Wrapper.

In the process of moving across we found a few issues with the current
sh.script.in, and also have added a few "extras" that we've found useful
in our existing scripts.  These are:

       1) The use of "uname -p" raises an error or older Debian systems.
Minor change to suppress messages on STDERR.

       2) The use of "su" on RedHat causes issues as su always requests a
password.  Instead use "runuser" if it exists.

       3) Some large "application server" style applications need to
perform some initialization.  It may be desirable for the RC script to
wait for a few seconds to give the server some cpu time to initialize
before returning, and hence continuing with other RC related tasks that
may be running on the server.  We introduced a extra "option" to
configure this delay.

A diff based on version 3.2.3 is attached, and just in case it does
not come out in the email correctly, it can be downloaded from:

http://www.papercut.biz/anonftp/pub/open-source/java-service-wrapper/java-service-wrapper.diff.tgz

It would be great if this could be integrated into a future release.
Also in appreciation of the developers doing all the hard work, I've
arranged for a donation ;-)



Cheers,

Chris

-- 
Christopher Dance
PaperCut Software Pty. Ltd.
Profile: http://www.papercut.biz/company.htm#chris
Weblog:  http://papercut.biz/blog/author/chris/