Launching the UMUI server at boot time

1. The script umuictl.tcl can be used to launch the UMUI primary database server, and to make it reload the database from disk. This is in place of running the umui_admin program.

   After downloading the script, you will need to:

   • make it executable
   • edit the line which sets the variable primary_base_dir, so that it points to the full path of the "ghui2.0" directory in your UMUI installation.

2. On RedHat Linux systems (if you have root access) you can also use this shell script, which should be installed as /etc/rc.d/init.d/umui , in order to automate the startup of the database server to occur at machine boot time.

   After downloading the script, you will need to:

   • make it executable
   • edit the line which sets the variable script, so that it points to the full path of the "umuictl.tcl" script which you downloaded above.
   • edit the line which sets the variable username, so that it points to the username which has write access to the UMUI database
   • run (as root): /sbin/chkconfig --add umui

Last edited: 7 December 2001
Alan Iwi <A.M.Iwi@rl.ac.uk>