We recommend to use the docker version of Odysseus. See Run with Docker.


This page describes how to install Odysseus Server as a Linux service that starts at system start automatically.

First, you have to install all dependencies as described at How to install Odysseus. Save the Odysseus Server binaries to a proper location, e. g., to /opt/odysseus/. Then, you should create a script that starts odysseus, e. g. to /usr/local/bin/odysseus. Example for this script:

#!/bin/sh
 
while true; do
	java -Xmx500M -Xms500M -Declipse.p2.mirrors=false -jar /opt/odysseus/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.5.500.v20190715-1310.jar -console -debug -data @noDefault
	if [ "$?" != "23" ]; then
		break
	fi 
done

Don't forget to make it executable:

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/odysseus

Now, you can use the command odysseus to start the Odysseus Server (because /usr/local/bin is in the path variable).

To let Odysseus start at system start, you have to add a start script at /etc/init.rc/odysseus. The following simple example expects a user odysseus:

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          odysseus
# Required-Start:    $all        
# Required-Stop:     
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start/stop Odysseus Server
### END INIT INFO
USERNAME=odysseus
do_start() {
	# TODO: prevent starting odysseus a bunch of times
	su $USERNAME -l -c "screen -dmS odysseus odysseus"
}
do_stop() {
	# TODO: if you have started odysseus a bunch of times without stopping it before, stopping doesn't work
	su $USERNAME -c  "screen -p 0 -S odysseus -X quit"
}
case "$1" in
    start)
		echo "Starting Odysseus ..."
		do_start
        ;;
    stop)
		echo "Stopping Odysseus ..."
		do_stop
        ;;
	restart)
		echo "Restarting Odysseus ..."
		do_stop
		do_start
		;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/odysseus {start|stop}"
        ;;
esac
exit 0

On most Linux distributions, you can activate this script by (as root):

update-rc.d odysseus defaults

You can start, stop or restart the Odysseus service by (as root):

/etc/init.rc/odysseus start
/etc/init.rc/odysseus stop
/etc/init.rc/odysseus restart
 
# On most systems also:
service odysseus start
service odysseus stop
service odysseus restart


You can get the OSGI console by joining the screen instance:

# as user odysseus:
screen -S odysseus -dRR
 
# if you get a error message like 'Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/1' - please check.' you have to use the following command:
script -q -c "screen -S odysseus -dRR" /dev/null
 
# As root, you can use the following command:
su odysseus -l -c "script -q -c \"screen -S odysseus -dRR\" /dev/null"

To leave the OSGI console, you have to press Ctrl+A followed by the key d.


To deploy odysseus to a bunch of servers, you can use a deploy script.


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