Iplanet

To force daily rotation of Iplanet (Sun One Web Server) logs, add the following line to magnus.conf:

Init fn=flex-rotate-init rotate-start=0000 rotate-interval=1440

where the rotate-interval is in minutes, 1440 being 24 hours.

Restart Iplanet. "access" and "errors" logs will be rotated every 24 hours and named as such:

-rw-r--r--   1 iplanet  iplanet      143 Apr 23 00:00 access
-rw-r--r--   1 iplanet  iplanet      143 Apr 21 21:35 access.200704220000
-rw-r--r--   1 iplanet  iplanet      143 Apr 22 00:00 access.200704230000

If Iplanet (Sun One Webserver) has security turned on (in the magnus.conf) it will prompt for a password to start the webserver. In cases where you might script the starting of Iplanet, you might want to provide the password, but not be prompted every time.

create a file called "token" (or anything for that matter) and put your iplanet password in it. (Yes, this will be plain text, so take security measures...)

now, start Iplanet by redirecting that file into the start command:

/apps/iplanet/https-hostname.camelrichard.org/start < token

Iplanet (Sun One Webserver) requires a server certificate to boot if you turn security on (to require a password to boot). This is commonly done through the admin console, but can also be done on the command line. This example uses Sun One Webserver 6.1SP7.

To Turn Security ON:

vi magnus.conf

change:

Security off

to:

Security on

Now, if you tried to start the webserver, you would see a message like this: