Before you start Continuum, you must configure your SMTP configuration for mail notification. The configuration is in $CONTINUUM_HOME/conf/jetty.xml:
<New id="validation_mail" class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.naming.Resource">
<Arg>mail/Session</Arg>
<Arg>
<New class="org.mortbay.naming.factories.MailSessionReference">
<Set name="user"></Set>
<Set name="password"></Set>
<Set name="properties">
<New class="java.util.Properties">
<Put name="mail.smtp.host">localhost</Put>
</New>
</Set>
</New>
</Arg>
</New>
By default, Continuum use an embedded Derby database. If you want to use an other database, you can modify the JNDI configuration in $CONTINUUM_HOME/conf/jetty.xml:
<!-- continuum database -->
<New id="continuum" class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.naming.Resource">
<Arg>jdbc/continuum</Arg>
<Arg>
<New class="org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDataSource">
<Set name="DatabaseName"><SystemProperty name="appserver.base" default=".."/>/data/databases/continuum</Set>
<Set name="user">sa</Set>
<Set name="createDatabase">create</Set>
</New>
</Arg>
</New>
<New id="continuumShutdown" class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.naming.Resource">
<Arg>jdbc/continuumShutdown</Arg>
<Arg>
<New class="org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDataSource">
<Set name="DatabaseName"><SystemProperty name="appserver.base" default=".."/>/data/databases/continuum</Set>
<Set name="user">sa</Set>
<Set name="shutdownDatabase">shutdown</Set>
</New>
</Arg>
</New>
<!-- Users / Security Database -->
<New id="users" class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.naming.Resource">
<Arg>jdbc/users</Arg>
<Arg>
<New class="org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDataSource">
<Set name="DatabaseName"><SystemProperty name="appserver.base" default=".."/>/data/databases/users</Set>
<Set name="user">sa</Set>
<Set name="createDatabase">create</Set>
</New>
</Arg>
</New>
<New id="usersShutdown" class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.naming.Resource">
<Arg>jdbc/usersShutdown</Arg>
<Arg>
<New class="org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDataSource">
<Set name="DatabaseName"><SystemProperty name="appserver.base" default=".."/>/data/databases/users</Set>
<Set name="user">sa</Set>
<Set name="shutdownDatabase">shutdown</Set>
</New>
</Arg>
</New>
continuum.bat install
Since the Continuum Linux script bin/continuum understands the same arguments as Linux boot scripts, there is no need to write a particular startup script to add Continuum to the Linux boot process. All you need to do, as root, is:
#!/bin/sh CONTINUUM_HOME=/opt/continuum-1.3 su - continuum_user -c "$CONTINUUM_HOME/bin/continuum console $@ &"
ln -s /usr/local/continuum-[VERSION]/bin/continuum /etc/init.d/continuum
At this point you have Continuum ready to be symlinked from different runlevels. This might sound a bit esoteric, but it is not. You will find these words very fast as soon as you start reading about the init process. Fortunately, Debian GNU/Linux comes with a very handy utility to create these links, just run as root:
update-rc.d -n continuum defaults 80
If you run this command, you will see something like this:
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/continuum ... /etc/rc0.d/K80continuum -> ../init.d/continuum /etc/rc1.d/K80continuum -> ../init.d/continuum /etc/rc6.d/K80continuum -> ../init.d/continuum /etc/rc2.d/S80continuum -> ../init.d/continuum /etc/rc3.d/S80continuum -> ../init.d/continuum /etc/rc4.d/S80continuum -> ../init.d/continuum /etc/rc5.d/S80continuum -> ../init.d/continuum
What you see is the symlinks that would be created. The above command didn't actually create anything because of the -n switch. Remove that switch and run the command again to have the real links created.
Configuring Continuum on a RedHat-based system (like Fedora Core) is slightly different. Instead of running update-rc.d, you need to add a new service using the chkconfig command. In order to add Continuum using chkconfig, it is necessary to add some comments to the /etc/rc.d/init.d/continuum script and run a couple of commands. These tasks are executed by running the chkconfig_install.sh script below. Note that _continuum_user_ needs to be replaced by the name of an account you have already created.
#! /bin/sh
#
# chkconfig_install.sh - install Continuum on a chkconfig-based system
#
# Author: Felipe Leme <felipeal at apache.org>
#
# figure out what's Continuum's directory
CONTINUUM_HOME=`dirname $0`
cd ${CONTINUUM_HOME}
CONTINUUM_HOME=`pwd`
INITD_SCRIPT=/etc/rc.d/init.d/continuum
if [ -f ${INITD_SCRIPT} ]
then
echo "File ${INITD_SCRIPT} already exists. Please remove it and try again."
exit 1
fi
echo "Creating file ${INITD_SCRIPT}"
cat >> ${INITD_SCRIPT} <<EOF
#! /bin/sh
# chkconfig: 345 90 10
# description: Apache Continuum server
# uncoment to set JAVA_HOME as the value present when Continuum installed
#export JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME}
if [ -z "\${JAVA_HOME}" ]
then
echo "Cannot manage Continuum without variable JAVA_HOME set"
echo " (try to set it on file ${INITD_SCRIPT})"
exit 1
fi
# run Continuum as root
cd ${CONTINUUM_HOME}
./bin/continuum \$*
# run Continuum as user _continuum_user_
#su - _continuum_user_ -c "cd ${CONTINUUM_HOME}; ./bin/continuum \$*"
EOF
chmod +x ${INITD_SCRIPT}
echo "Adding Continuum to chkconfig"
chkconfig --add continuum
echo "Enabling Continuum on chkconfig"
chkconfig continuum on
echo "Continuum set to start on run levels 3, 4 and 5."
echo "To start Continuum now, run 'service continuum start'"