View the status of Filr Content Editor

  • 7024372
  • 15-Jan-2020
  • 15-Jan-2020

Environment

Filr 4.1 Content Editor

Situation

The administrator wants to be able to view the status of the Filr Content Editor, and/or start or start this process.

Resolution

From a terminal prompt, enter the following command:

systemctl stop/start/status ContentEditor

When viewing the status, the output may be similar to the following:

 # systemctl status ContentEditor
● ContentEditor.service - Content Editor Service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ContentEditor.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2019-11-13 10:48:35 MST; 2 months 2 days ago
  Process: 9009 ExecStop=/opt/novell/base_config/dockerStatus.sh stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 9100 ExecStartPre=/opt/novell/base_config/dockerStartPre.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 9110 (dockerStatus.sh)
    Tasks: 13
   Memory: 14.7M
      CPU: 2min 2.238s
   CGroup: /system.slice/ContentEditor.service
           ├─9110 /bin/sh /opt/novell/base_config/dockerStatus.sh start
           └─9143 docker start -a fb7f16d0689a

Nov 13 10:48:38 ewells6 dockerStatus.sh[9110]: :failed
Nov 13 10:48:38 ewells6 dockerStatus.sh[9110]: :failed
Nov 13 10:48:38 ewells6 dockerStatus.sh[9110]:  mysql ucpext hyphen spell lnth mailmerge for ctl passwordcontainer svgio updatefeed
Nov 13 10:48:40 ewells6 dockerStatus.sh[9110]: Whitelisted languages: cs da de en_GB en_US es fi fr hu it ja nl pl pt_BR ru sv tr zh_CN zh_TW
Nov 13 10:48:46 ewells6 dockerStatus.sh[9110]: Preloading dictionaries: cs_CZ da_DK de_DE en_US fr_FR hu_HU it_IT nl_NL pl_PL pt_BR ru_RU sv_SE de_CH en_>
Nov 13 10:48:46 ewells6 dockerStatus.sh[9110]: Preloading thesauri: cs_CZ da_DK de_DE en_US fr_FR hu_HU it_IT nl_NL pl_PL pt_BR ru_RU sv_SE de_CH en_GB e>
Nov 13 10:48:46 ewells6 dockerStatus.sh[9110]: Preload icons
Nov 13 10:48:46 ewells6 dockerStatus.sh[9110]: Preload languages
Nov 13 10:48:46 ewells6 dockerStatus.sh[9110]: Preload fonts
Nov 13 10:48:52 ewells6 dockerStatus.sh[9110]: office version details: { "ProductName": "Collabora Office", "ProductVersion": "6.0", "ProductExtension": >

Cause

To recreate container; for instance, when the hosts file has changed, use this command:
sh /opt/novell/base_config/CEcontainerRecreate.sh

To restart the ContentEditor service, use this command:
systemctl restart ContentEditor

Additional Information

Note that the process mentioned above is "docker". You can display the docker containers by running this command:

docker ps -a

The output may be similar to the following:

 # systemctl docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                         COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                           NAMES
fb7f16d0689a        content-editor-docker-image   "/bin/sh -c '/usr/..."   2 months ago        Up 2 months         0.0.0.0:9980->9980/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->9980/tcp   content-editor-container