How to add Red5 service

How to add Red5 service

In this article you are going to add red5 service in your Linux box.

Please use the Below script.

#!/bin/bash
# Author www.arulraj.net
# red5    This is used to start, stop, restart and status of red5
#

export RED5_HOME=/opt/red5

PID=0
RTMPPORT=1935
prog="red5"

start(){
  status
  if [ $PID -eq 0 ] ; then
    echo $"Starting $prog..."
    nohup $RED5_HOME/red5.sh 1> $RED5_HOME/log/stdout.log 2>$RED5_HOME/log/stderr.log < /dev/null &
    PID=$!
    echo $"$prog started at port $RTMPPORT and PID[$PID]."
  else
    echo
  fi
  return $PID
}

stop(){
  status
  if [ $PID -eq 0 ] ; then
    echo
  else
    echo $"Stopping $prog..."
    $RED5_HOME/red5-shutdown.sh
    echo $"PID[$PID] is killed."
  fi
  return $PID
}

restart(){
  stop
  sleep 2
  start
}

status() {
  RTMPPORT=`cat $RED5_HOME/conf/red5.properties | grep -w "rtmp.port" | awk -F= '{print $2}'`
  #PID=`lsof -i | grep java | grep *:$RTMPPORT | awk '{print $2}'`
  PID=`ps -ef | grep red5 | grep java | awk '{print $2}'`
  if [ x"$PID" == "x" ] ; then
    PID=0
    echo $"$prog is not running."
  else
    echo $"$prog running on port $RTMPPORT and PID[$PID]."
  fi
  return $PID
}

# How its called.
case "$1" in
  start)
    start
  ;;
  stop)
    stop
  ;;
  status)
    status
  ;;
  restart)
    restart
  ;;
  *)
    echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
    PID=1
esac

exit $PID

Steps:

Save these shell script lines as a file. For mine i saved as file "red5". OR You can download this file from Here
Copy this file to /etc/init.d/
Then execute the below commands to start red5 when your system starts

I checked with ubuntu 10.04. For chkconfig work on ubuntu you need to install chkconfig

This above script Not working in Ubuntu

apt-get install chkconfig

Add red5 in startup - ubuntu:

Use this command

sudo update-rc.d red5 defaults

Thanks to anonymous for this info.

Usage:

Start : /etc/init.d/red5 start
Stop : /etc/init.d/red5 stop
Status : /etc/init.d/red5 status
Restart : /etc/init.d/red5 restart

Please Let me know if you have any issues or better ideas...