Once installed, the Netscape Server and its child processes run
constantly, listening for and accepting requests. If your machine
crashes or is taken offline, the Netscape Server processes die with
it. There are two ways you can restart the server in such cases. One
way is to have it automatically restarted from inittab
,
and the other way is to automatically start it along with other
daemons in /etc/rc.local
when the machine reboots. If you
are using a version of UNIX not derived from System V (such as SunOS
4), you will not be able to use the inittab option. You should also
note that if you're running in secure mode, the server cannot automatically
restart because you must type in the key file password.
If you select inittab
, the server is automatically
restarted if it should ever die. If you select
/etc/rc.local
, the server only restarts when the system
is rebooted.
These forms cannot edit /etc/rc.local or /etc/inittab. For automatic restart options you must edit those files manually. Otherwise you will have to start the server manually from the command line. If you do not know how to edit these files, please consult your system's administrator or system manual. Put the following on one line in /etc/inittab:
NOTE: The -i parameter is very important.
In /etc/rc.local, or whatever your system equivalent happens to be, place the following line:
If you should ever need to start the server from the command line, type this at the command-line prompt:
If you should ever need to stop the server manually, become superuser, check the full process load and type this at the command-line prompt:
Note: If you use the inittab method of restarting the server, you'll need to remove that line from /etc/inittab before you stop the server.