Install and run OpenOffice as service on centos

By tvivu · March 23, 2017 · Leave a comment

Install OpenOffice command line

yum install libreoffice-base
yum install libreoffice-writer
yum install libreoffice-headless

Test the install success or not by using command. (to stop the command press ctrl +c)

soffice --headless --accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;" --nofirststartwizard

Open other console and run:

telnet localhost 8100

Setup openoffice as service

create /etc/init.d/soffice

#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 345 20 80
# description: init.d script for headless openoffice.org 
#
# processname: soffice
#
# source function library
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

RETVAL=0
SOFFICE_PATH='/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program'
SOFFICE_ARGS='--accept="socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp" --headless'
SOFFICE_PIDFILE=/var/run/soffice.bin.pid

start_soffice() {
       echo -n $"Starting OpenOffice.org"
       daemon $SOFFICE_PATH/soffice.bin $SOFFICE_ARGS &
       [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo_success || echo_failure
       pidof soffice.bin > $SOFFICE_PIDFILE
       echo
}
start() {
       start_soffice
}
stop() {
       echo -n $"Stopping OpenOffice"
       killproc soffice.bin
       echo
}
case "$1" in
       start)
               start
               ;;
       stop)
               stop
               ;;
       restart)
               stop
               start
               ;;
       *)
               echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac

5.)

root $ chmod +x /etc/init.d/soffice
root $ chkconfig –add soffice
root $ chkconfig soffice on
root $ service soffice start