How to properly shutdown and start the SFX server

Question

How do I properly shut down and restart the SFX server?

Answer

The SFX processes (Apaches and MySQL) should stop and start up again if the machine is shut down and restarted normally.

However, if you would prefer to manually restart or shut down the SFX processes instead, please take the following steps:

1. log in as root 
2. Run the following commands:

tcsh 
source ~sfxglb41/.cshrc 
cd /exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/sfxglb41/admin/init_scripts 
./sfxd restart

Note that stop and start are also valid options.

You will see the following messages: 

Shutting down SFX v4 daemons: 
Redirecting output to /exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/tmp/sfxd.log 
done. 
Starting SFX v4 daemons: 
Redirecting output to /exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/tmp/sfxd.log 
done. 

3. Check the log file (/exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/tmp/sfxd.log) for any errors during this process.

Additional Information

Please see the "Startup Scripts" section of the SFX System Administration Guide.pdf.

• Article last edited: 27-Nov-2016