Thanks for the prompt reply. As i mentioned in my previous mails, i have already tried running openser from cvs. but the init.d script does nt work as it requires some monit daemon to run the openser. the monit daemon in turn was unable to start openser bcoz the /var/run/openser.pid file was not found. for the same reason, starting openser from openserctl also failed. so i have started openser directly as: openser start since /usr/local/sbin is already set in the PATH variable. this way i am able to start openser but if i have to stop it i have to press ctrl+c,. i want to stop it by giving some command like openser stop or something like that. please let me know if any one of u folks have any idea about this.

i am running openser on centos if that helps.

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Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:32 AM

Subject: Re: [Users] Starting and stopping openser

check this URL for you to install and running open ser

its easy step by steps

start from /etc/init.d

go with this doc, its very usefull for starters

On 6/6/06, Padmaja RV <padmaja.rv@vodcalabs.com> wrote:

Hi all!
since i had problems with running openser thru init.d script., i tried to
run it thru openserctl. however, the file /var/run/openser.pid is not found
there and it too was not running. so i started running openser with
/usr/local/sbin/openser start. it works fine this way. also since
/usr/local/sbin is in my PATH variable, i can directly type openser start
and this way also it runs. however, after starting openser, it does not
return the command prompt back. if i have to stop running openser, i have to
hit ctrl+c. there is no other way to stop it.... please let me know how to
start and stop openser directly (not thru init or openserctl because both of
them give me trouble). also how can i see which is the main pid of openser
as when i run the ps command , it shows me some 3-4 pids for different
subprocesses............

Thanks in advance,
Padmaja