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["Hyzer, Chris" <>]

I think we should stick to one shell.  Bash.  The installer could definitely 
put that at the top of gsh, and gsh.sh.  Can you add a jira and we can work 
on it?  Or if you want to you can edit the grouperInstaller in git and submit 
a pull request :)

Thanks
Chris

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From: Peter St. Onge 
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Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 5:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Startup scripts under Linux systemd ?

Main thing is that people know about the need to edit gsh/gsh.sh -- It's 
blurry to me at the moment (clearly the earlier coffees have worn off), 
but I dimly seem to recall the installer asking for the location of a 
shell of some sort (/bin/sh?), so perhaps getting the installer to set 
this up is not so farfetched. In any case, the installer already asks 
for the location of dos2unix to strip the carriage returns out of the 
gsh.sh script...

Making symlinks on Unix systems to shells is probably "Not a Good 
Idea(tm)" and regardless the shells themselves should normally be in a 
user's PATH somewhere, and something like

pete@orca:~$ BASH=`which bash`; echo $BASH
/bin/bash

... should function on Unixen of different pedigrees. I'm happy to try 
experimenting with bash vs sh (sh on Ubuntu points to dash, we run 
Grouper on RH/Centos or SuSE at work) to see if the existing gsh works 
with those shells.

I can look into this and try a couple of things and get back to you if 
you like.

Thanks and Best, -- pete

On 2017-02-09 05:15 PM, Hyzer, Chris wrote:
> Is it unreasonable to require /bin/bash?  i.e. if its not there they
> need to either make a symlink for it or edit gsh/gsh.sh?
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter St. Onge 
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> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 5:12 PM
> To: Hyzer, Chris 
> <>
> Cc: 
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> Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Startup scripts under Linux systemd ?
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Might be able to do this as a heredoc to suss out the location of bash.
> If anybody here has bash *not* in /bin please flag me -- I might ask you
> to test something.
>
> Thanks and best, -- pete
>
>
> On 2017-02-09 04:41 PM, Hyzer, Chris wrote:
>> I posted these in your contrib space, and linked from the existing grouper 
>> loader startup script
>>
>> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+loader+and+tomcat+startup+scripts+systemd
>>
>> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/GrouperShell+GSH+loader+linux+service
>>
>> I think we don’t have #!/bin/bash at top because some systems have it in a 
>> different place.  Maybe the installer should sort that out?  Anyone have 
>> advice about that?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Chris
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>>  
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>>  On Behalf Of Peter St. Onge
>> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 9:22 AM
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>> 
>> Subject: [grouper-users] Startup scripts under Linux systemd ?
>>
>> Not sure if this is useful or even relevant, but I've cobbled together a
>> couple of Linux systemd service description files for Tomcat as well as
>> the Grouper loader that I'm happy to contribute / document; this
>> simplifies the automatic startup for both of these. Since we have shibd
>> and Apache as a reverse proxy (Shibboleth service provider) in front of
>> Tomcat, as well as a local PostgreSQL, the machine startup / service
>> restart dependencies are more easily handled this way.
>>
>> (The one caveat is that Unix scripts used for gsh -- gsh, gsh.sh --
>> won't run this way as they don't have the #!/bin/bash "splat-bang"
>> header line that sets out the interpreter, easily fixed manually but it
>> would be more useful if these files were changed in the source code
>> assuming that it wouldn't cause issues elsewhere)
>>
>> Thanks and best, -- pete
>>
>
>


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