Re: WO 5.3+ on Windows

On Sep 10, 2006, at 4:42 AM, RedBugz Software wrote:

> On 9/9/06, Chad Leigh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I may or may not be able to get anything in a wiki updated as I am
>> quite busy now but my 5.3 deployment on Solaris/FreeBSD is identical
>> to my 5.2 and 5.1 in terms of what I had to do.  Don't know about
>> windows but I would guess that it shouldn't be any different there
>> either.
>
> Unless you are doing a non-standard Solaris 5.2 install, wouldn't the
> 5.3 Solaris install be different?

The mechanics yes, a little, but the layout, no.  I just tarred up  
the stuff from an OS X server box I have and installed the  
directories on the Solaris box.  I never used the Solaris "installer"  
anyway on FreeBSD or Solaris with 5.2.  I just untarred the Solaris  
5.2 stuff and that is it.  I never ran the installer scripts or  
anything.

> For 5.2 you would just use the
> normal Solaris installer, but with 5.3 there is no Solaris installer.
> I assume with FreeBSD you just used the Solaris shell script installer
> and modified it to work on FreeBSD, or did you just copy all the bits
> from a good Solaris install to the FreeBSD machine(s), or did you
> write your own FreeBSD installer script?

I never ran the install script, just untarred things.  I wrote my own  
script that launches wotaskd and JavaMonitor (3 lines, set NEXT_ROOT,  
launch wotaskd, launch JavaMonitor, plus the #! line).  I use the  
same script on Solaris and FreeBSD (modified for each with -WOHost).   
In fact, I nfs mount the stuff from FreeBSD on Solaris and use the  
exact same installation on both, except for the launch script I wrote  
which has host names embedded (-WOHost). (And a second script which  
sits in the rc area as appropriate for both which calls the main  
script).  I run 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 on the same machine by using - 
WOHost and multiple IP addresses (now I have moved to using jails for  
each user on FreeBSD so the separation is a little bit better).

I don't run apache on the Solaris side -- just the FreeBSD side -- it  
gets its WO instances from both the FreeBSD and Solaris sides, so I  
did also compile the apache wo adapter on FreeBSD too and include  
that in apache.

>
> Windows has the additional baggage that unless you install Cygwin or
> equivalent, a nice shell script won't work on it. I don't see how it
> would be too hard (maybe tedious) to take a good 5.2 Windows install
> and just update all the parts to 5.3, it just needs to be done,
> documented, and tested.

The only real thing you need would be to create the wotaskd service?   
And somehow launch the Monitor?  I have never used WO on Windows

best
Chad

>
> Hopefully someone who has done that can document it, or I'll document
> it once/if I get around to doing it.
>
> Logan