Changeset 19445 for gsdl/trunk/gs2-server.sh

Timestamp:

2009-05-13T15:30:34+12:00 (15 years ago)

Author:

ak19

Message:

Silent flag that the user can set to true which will then launch GSI and return the x-term prompt to the user (running GSI in the background), but will then not print any of its output to the screen either.

File:

• gsdl/trunk/gs2-server.sh (modified) (2 diffs)

gsdl/trunk/gs2-server.sh

@@ -79 +79 @@
 fi
 
+##  ---- Determine GSDLHOME ----
+# Set this to true if you want the Greenstone server interface to run in the background
+# and not print any error messages to the x-term.
+silent=true
+
 # JRE_HOME or JAVA_HOME must be set correctly to run this program
 search4j -m $java_min_version &> /dev/null
@@ -101 +106 @@
 
     javapath="`search4j -m $java_min_version -e`"
-    # Launch the Greenstone Server Interface application in the background
-    # (hence &) so that the x-term prompt will return
-    "$javapath" org.greenstone.server.Server2 "$GSDLHOME" "$serverlang" $* &
+    if [ "x$silent" == "x" -o "x$silent" != "xtrue" ]; then 
+        # verbose mode, show all output, but then we can't run the server interface in the background
+    "$javapath" org.greenstone.server.Server2 "$GSDLHOME" "$serverlang" $*
+    else
+        # If we launch the Greenstone Server Interface application in the background (with & at end)
+        # need to redirect any STDERR (STDOUT) output to /dev/null first, else output will hog the x-term.
+    "$javapath" org.greenstone.server.Server2 "$GSDLHOME" "$serverlang" $* > /dev/null &
+    fi
 
     popd > /dev/null