Wer einen Root-Server aufsetzt sieht sich schnell in der Not, dass etwas nicht funktionert.
Bei der Kombination CentOS 6.4 und FirebirdCS-2.5.2 fehlt das Start/Stop Script.
Das mitgelieferte generic-Script und auch das debian-Script verweigern ihren Dienst.
Also tüfteln, recherchieren und probieren…
#!/bin/sh
# chkconfig: 345 80 20
# description: Start/Stop firebird database server
#
# This file belongs in /etc/init.d where it will be run
# on system startup and shutdown to start the background
# Firebird database server daemon
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: firebird
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog $named
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start firebird super-server or classic server
# Description: Start the firebird guardian process (fbguard)
# which starts the actual firebird server process
# (fbserver) and makes sure there is always fbserver
# running
### END INIT INFO
# This init script contains functions specific for CentOS
# init scripts.
# Changed by Heinz-Dieter Swiateck, May 2013 from Debian script.
# Testet with CentOS release 6.4 (Final)
# and FirebirdCS-2.5.2.26540-0.i686.rpm
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
FIREBIRD=/opt/firebird
FBRunUser=firebird
makeFbDir() {
mDir=${1}
mode=${2}
if [ ! -d $mDir ]; then
rm -rf $mDir
mkdir $mDir
if [ „$mode“ ]; then
chmod $mode $mDir
fi
fi
chown $FBRunUser:$FBRunUser $mDir
}
start() {
echo -n "Starting Firebird server: "
# start-stop-daemon –start –quiet –oknodo –chuid $FBRunUser –exec $GUARDIAN — $FB_OPTS
su -p -s /bin/sh $FBRunUser -c "\"$GUARDIAN\" $FB_OPTS" > /dev/null 2>&1 &
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch $lockFILE
return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
echo -n "Stopping Firebird server: "
if [ -f $pidfile ]
then
kill `cat $pidfile`
fi
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockFILE
return $RETVAL
}
runDir=/var/run/firebird
makeFbDir $runDir
lockDir=/tmp/firebird
makeFbDir $lockDir 0770
lockFILE=$lockDir/FiBiCS
pidfile=$runDir/FB_CS.pid
FB_OPTS="-pidfile $pidfile -daemon -forever"
export FIREBIRD
ISC_USER=
ISC_PASSWORD=
export ISC_USER ISC_PASSWORD
GUARDIAN=$FIREBIRD/bin/fbguard
if [ ! -x $GUARDIAN ]; then
GUARDIAN=/opt/firebird/bin/fbguard
fi
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
start && success || failure
echo
;;
stop)
stop && success || failure
echo
;;
restart|reload)
$0 stop
$0 start
RETVAL=$?
;;
shutdown)
echo -n "Forcibly killing Firebird server…"
killall fbguard
killall fbserver
killall fb_smp_server
echo "done."
RETVAL=0
;;
*)
echo "Usage: firebird {start|stop|shutdown|restart|reload}"
exit 1
esac
exit $RETVAL
HTH 😉