Steve Configuration/Installation

[KareemKelgamal]

Hi This Kareem from Egypt I used to follow the installation/config. steps and I downloaded all tools needed for system, then I prepared (steve.db) database but I have a misunderstanding concerning building and running of steve, if you can go in details in step 4 and 5 instructions cause i stuck at this point.

Thanks

[mosea3]

its a Java project, with Maven package manager which builds it. So you need to install mvn and its dependencies

Thats why you use command mvn package

this will build it. If it fails, run mvn -X to see a more detailed version of building.

This will create in the folder ./steve/target/ a new executable Java file (JAR), steve.jar

To execute this manually, you will need to call the command like in the manual. java -jar steve.jar It then runs as long as the command is active.

To have it running in the background, you might want to run it as a service. I in this case created a new "service unit" in /etc/systemd/system/steve.service

[Unit]
Description=Runs SteVe JAR as Service
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/pcm/steve/target
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -jar steve-release.jar
ExecStop=/bin/kill -15 $MAINPID
SuccessExitStatus=143

Type=simple

User=<!type in your username here, which should execute it!>
Group=<!type in your users groupname here, which should execute it!>

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

and then we can use systemctl or service to run service steve start to start it service steve status to see the service status (eg. if the service loaded, or failed prematurely) and service steve stop to stop the service

very convenient to run it in the background. Logs are still there where you set it up in log4j

Does that make it any clearer? Or can you describe at which point youre stuck?

[KareemKelgamal]

@mosea3 much thanks

[goekay]

i consider this issue to be resolved, and therefore am closing it.