Collection of startup scripts for headless OpenOffice/LibreOffice soffice listener server. https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv#conversion-problems

SOFFICE_LISTENER_STARTUP_SCRIPTS.md

sofficelistener

Collection of startup scripts for headless OpenOffice/LibreOffice soffice listener server

Installation

For SysV Generic Startup Script

$ sudo -s
$ git clone https://gist.github.com/[GIST_ID].git /opt/sofficelistener
$ ln -s /opt/sofficelistener/generic-init.d-sofficelistener.sh /etc/init.d/sofficelistener
$ update-rc.d sofficelistener defaults
$ invoke-rc.d sofficelistener start

Contributing

Other startup scripts to work on.

.
├── sysv-generic-init.d-sofficelistener.sh [DONE]
├── launchagents-org.libreoffice.soffice.plist [TODO]
├── supervisord-soffice.conf [TODO]
├── systemd-soffice.service [TODO]
└── upstart-soffice.conf [TODO]

sysv-generic-init.d-sofficelistener.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          openoffice/libreoffice
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start headless soffice listener server.
# Description:       Enable headless soffice listener service.
### END INIT INFO
#
# generic startup script for headless openoffice/libreoffice soffice listener server
#
# chkconfig: 2345 80 30
# description: headless soffice listener server script
# processname: sofficelistener
#
# Author: Nathaniel Varona
# Date: 2014-Sep-11
#
# If sudo user still asking for a password, to avoid this just edit the following.
# sudo nano /etc/sudoers
# %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL


SOFFICE_USER="www-data"
SOFFICE_PATH="/usr/bin/soffice"
SOFFICE_ARGS="--headless --nologo --nofirststartwizard --accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager"

set -e

case "$1" in
    start)
        if [[ `pidof soffice.bin` ]]; then
          echo "Headless soffice listener server has already started."
          exit
        fi
          echo "Starting headless soffice listener server."
          sudo -i -u $SOFFICE_USER $SOFFICE_PATH $SOFFICE_ARGS & > /dev/null 2>&1
    ;;
    stop)
        if [[ `pidof soffice.bin` ]]; then
            echo "Stopping headless soffice listener server."
            kill `pidof soffice.bin`
            exit
        fi
        echo "Headless soffice listener server is not running."
        exit
    ;;
    restart)
        $0 stop; sleep 5 ; $0 start
    ;;
    *)
    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
    exit 1
esac
exit 0