David asked me for a way to keep the listener up and running when a box is rebooted.  There may very well be better ways to do this but this script can be used to start, stop, get status, and tail the log file.  Also it can be dropped in as an init.d script to have the Listener start when the box starts.  Since we don't have access to init.d for David's case, we are just going to put in a cron job to check status and start if not already going.  The start function checks to ensure it's not already running before trying to start it up.  You should be able to use this but just changing the location variables in the top of the file.

The one addition over a normal init.d is the log command I added ( which is very simple).  Just do ./listener.sh log and it will tail the log file.


#!/bin/sh
#
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
NAME="Oracle Application Express Listener"
JAVA="/my/install/path/to/jdk/jre/bin/java"
APEXWAR="/my/install/path/to/apex_listener/apex.war"


OPTIONS="-Xmx1024m -Xms256m  -jar $APEXWAR"

LOGFILE=/tmp/apex_listener.log
PIDFILE=/tmp/apex_listener.pid
start() {
        echo -n "Starting $NAME: "
        if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
                PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
                echo APEX Listener already running: $PID
                exit 2;
        else
                nohup $JAVA $OPTIONS 2>&1 > $LOGFILE  &
                RETVAL=$!
                echo Started PID: $RETVAL
                echo
                echo $RETVAL >>$PIDFILE
                return $RETVAL
        fi

}

status() {
        echo -n "Status $NAME: "
        if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
                PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
                echo APEX Listener already running: $PID
                ps -ef | grep $PID
        else
                echo APEX Listener not running
        fi
}

stop() {
        if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
                PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
                echo -n "Shutting down $NAME "
                echo
                kill $PID
                rm -f $PIDFILE
        else
                echo APEX Listener not running
        fi
        return 0
}

log() {
        tail -f $LOGFILE
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        start
        ;;
    stop)
        stop
        ;;
    status)
        status
        ;;
    restart)
        stop
        start
        ;;
    log)
        log
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage:  {start|stop|status|restart|log}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
exit $?