Openoffice headless server

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Does anyone Know how to set up Openoffice headless server on openSuse 11.3 ?

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What is the usage scenario?

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If you use Yast the depo is

URL: http://www2.ati.com/suse/11.3

and the category should be automatically set to YUM

You cannot browse the URL. Is that what you mean by headless?

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keellambert wrote:

> You cannot browse the URL. Is that what you mean by headless?

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=headless+server

–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]

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Here is a link of what I’m trying to do YABS

Here is the script named openoffice.sh that I put in /etc/init.d


#!/bin/bash
    # openoffice.org headless server script
    #
    # chkconfig: 2345 80 30
    # description: headless openoffice server script
    # processname: openoffice
    #
    # Author: Vic Vijayakumar
    # Modified by Uwe Stark
    #
    OOo_HOME=/usr/lib/ooo3/program
    SOFFICE_PATH=$OOo_HOME/soffice
    PIDFILE=/var/run/openoffice-server.pid

    set -e

    case "$1" in
    start)
    if  -f $PIDFILE ]; then
    echo "OpenOffice headless server has already started."
    sleep 5
    exit
    fi
    echo "Starting OpenOffice headless server"
    $SOFFICE_PATH -headless -nologo -nofirststartwizard -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp" & > /dev/null 2>&1
    touch $PIDFILE
    ;;
    stop)
    if  -f $PIDFILE ]; then
    echo "Stopping OpenOffice headless server."
    killall -9 soffice && killall -9 soffice.bin
    rm -f $PIDFILE
    exit
    fi
    echo "Openoffice headless server is not running."
    exit
    ;;
    *)
    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
    exit 1
    esac
    exit 0

I am trying to use Openoffice from another computer on my network

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Just ssh -X to the server and run OO on the server, displaying to your desktop’s display.

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Can you explain a little more.

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sczlittle wrote:
>
> Can you explain a little more.

do you know how to ssh to the server?

what kind of computer are you wanting to use to contact the server?

well, is there a good reason to not want to just install OpenOffice ON
that same computer, rather than a server?

–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]

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I am using a program called YABS.
No I have never ssh to a server.
I 3 linux boxes(all Suse 11.3) and server (Suse 11.3).
If I use openoffice with YABS on the personal computer openoffice becomes unusable on those computers. You have to KILL soffice manually. And sometime that doesn’t work. YABS uses openoffice for templates and converting to pdf.

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sczlittle wrote:
> I am using a program called ‘YABS’ (http://openyabs.org).

ok, i need to back out of trying to help you because i don’t the
understand the benefit of using YABS to put openOffice on a server and
then connecting to it…

is that what are used to doing with Microsoft Office? one copy on one
server and then everyone goes there?

anyway, if YABS does not tell you (in their documentation) how to set
it up and use it, then i don’t know how i should be able to figure
that out (without installing all of it) and then tell you how to do it…

sorry…say, does YABS have a forum of experts to help you?

–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]

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Yes they have a forum but they haven’t gotten back to all weekend.

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On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:36:02 +0530, sczlittle
<sczlittle@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> Yes they have a forum but they haven’t gotten back to all weekend.
>

i looked at it (while finding out what YABS is all about). seems to be a
pretty new forum, not many members or posts yet. with your particular
problem, you might want to look into openOffice forums as well.

–
phani.

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Iv’e been looking and trying different script combinations all weekend.
I can’t get the script to start on boot.

Thanks for your input.
steve