Comments on: RHEL5 init (init.d) script for OpenOffice.org (2.3+)

By: bill

bill — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:00:47 +0000

So I changed the init script line to run directly w/ the options, no variables:

${SOFFICE_PATH}/soffice.bin -headless -nofirststartwizard -accept=”socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.Service” > /dev/null 2>&1 &

and it works fine. dunno what the deal is.

By: bill

bill — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:55:46 +0000

I’m trying this on fedora 10 w/ oo3 (fedora’s 3.0.1-15.3 version) and i can’t seem to get it to work. i have the following oo3 rpms installed:

openoffice.org-ure-3.0.1-15.3.fc10.i386
openoffice.org-headless-3.0.1-15.3.fc10.i386
openoffice.org-core-3.0.1-15.3.fc10.i386
openoffice.org-brand-3.0.1-15.3.fc10.i386

so my command line looks like:

/usr/lib/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin -headless -nofirststartwizard -accept=”socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.Service”

if i run that as root from the console, it binds to 8100.

if i run the init script (w/ the same commandline) it doesn’t bind to 8100.

any ideas?

By: Surj

Surj — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:59:23 +0000

Also add the param -nofirststartwizard to stop it asking you to register, e.g.:

SOFFICE_ARGS=’-accept=”socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp” -headless -nofirststartwizard’

By: Chris Schuld

Chris Schuld — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:39:48 +0000

@Jorge,

Thanks! Agreed 100%; thanks for the update/suggestion!

By: Jorge Williams

Jorge Williams — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:13:35 +0000

Whoops… I mean

su – soffice -c “$SOFFICE_PATH/soffice.bin $SOFFICE_ARGS” < /dev/null &> /dev/null &

By: Jorge Williams

Jorge Williams — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:10:37 +0000

Hi Chris,

I don’t think it’s a good idea to run soffice as root.

I’d suggest creating a user “soffice” and trying something like:

su – soffice -c “$SOFFICE_PATH/soffice.bin $SOFFICE_ARGS” /dev/null &

-jOrGe W.