This is an alternative method for keeping the AOLserver process running. The recommended method is to run AOLserver supervised.
This step should be completed as root. This can break every service on your machine, so proceed with caution.
There are 2 general steps to getting this working.
 
				Install a script called
				restart-aolserver. This
				script doesn't actually restart AOLserver - it just kills
				it.  
			  
				Ask the OS to restart our service whenever it's not
				running. We do this by adding a line to
				/etc/inittab.
			  
			Calling restart-aolserver
			kills our service. The OS notices that our service is not
			running, so it automatically restarts it. Thus, calling
			restart-aolserver effectively
			restarts our service.  
		  
 
			Copy this file into
			/var/tmp/restart-aolserver.txt.
		  
 
			This script needs to be SUID-root, which means
			that the script will run as root. This is necessary to ensure
			that the AOLserver processes are killed regardless of who owns
			them. However the script should be executable by the
			web group to ensure that the
			users updating the web page can use the script, but that
			general system users cannot run the script. You also need to
			have Perl installed and also a symbolic link to it in
			/usr/local/bin. 
		  
[joeuser ~]$ su - Password: *********** [root ~]# cp /var/tmp/restart-aolserver.txt /usr/local/bin/restart-aolserver [root ~]# chown root.web /usr/local/bin/restart-aolserver [root ~]# chmod 4750 /usr/local/bin/restart-aolserver [root ~]# ln -s /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl [root ~]# exit
 
			Test the restart-aolserver
			script. We'll first kill all running servers to clean the
			slate. Then, we'll start one server and use
			restart-aolserver to kill
			it. If it works, then there should be no more servers
			running. You should see the following lines. 
[joeuser ~]$ killall nsd nsd: no process killed [joeuser ~]$ /usr/local/aolserver/bin/nsd-postgres -t ~/var/lib/aolserver/birdnotes/nsd.tcl [joeuser ~]$ restart-aolserver birdnotes Killing 23727 [joeuser ~]$ killall nsd nsd: no process killed
            The number 23727 indicates the process id(s) (PIDs) of the
            processes being killed. It is important that no processes are killed by the second
            call to killall. If there are
            processes being killed, it means that the script is not
            working.
 
          Assuming that the restart-aolserver
          script worked, login as root and open
          /etc/inittab for
          editing. 
[joeuser ~]$ su - Password: ************ [root ~]# emacs -nw /etc/inittab
 
            Copy this line into the bottom of the file as a template,
            making sure that the first field
            nss1 is unique.
          
nss1:345:respawn:/usr/local/aolserver/bin/nsd-postgres -i -u nobody -g web -t /home/joeuser/var/lib/aolserver/birdnotes/nsd.tcl
Important: Make sure there is a newline at the end of the file. If there is not a newline at the end of the file, the system may suffer catastrophic failures.
            Still as root, enter the following command to re-initialize
            /etc/inittab. 
[root ~]# killall nsd nsd: no process killed [root ~]# /sbin/init q
 
            See if it worked by running the
            restart-aolserver script
            again. 
[root ~]# restart-aolserver birdnotes
Killing 23750If processes were killed, congratulations, your server is now automated for startup and shutdown.