[AMQ-5503] Make init script more reliable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Affects Version/s: 5.11.1
• Fix Version/s: 5.12.0
• Component/s: Broker
• Labels: documentation initscript

Environment

Unix/Linux

• Assignee: Jean-Baptiste Onofré
• Reporter: Marc Schöchlin
• Created: 04/Jan/15 11:07
• Updated: 28/Jan/20 14:11
• Resolved: 19/May/15 18:58

Description

The Activemq init script received with AMQ-5378 some changes which improve the quality of the init script. This ticket addresses further improvements.

• Add a shellscript testsuite to ease the verification of the proper function on various unix platforms (Linux, MacOS, ...)
• Make the shellscript code more reliable
• Improve usability for administrative users

Current pull request: https://github.com/apache/activemq/pull/61

Issue Links

• is related to: AMQ-5448 Update Documentation for unix/linux
• is related to: AMQ-5378 refactoring and simple testsuite for unix init script
• relates to: AMQ-5714 Issue with pathCanonical() method within activemq startup for installation paths that consist of directories with a single character or 2 characters
• relates to: AMQ-5533 Update Mac support for activemq-admin script
• relates to: AMQ-5733 kill -9 always results in failure signal
• relates to: AMQ-6190 When running "./bin/activemq console" PID file is not owned by "ACTIVEMQ_USER"
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #61
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #424