For Grouper 2.5+ see the new approach for Grouper 2.5+ packaging and versioning strategy
You can run the grouper installer in non interactive mode to automatically install patches. You might want to do this in dev or test servers.
Make a directory, e.g. /opt/grouper/2.2/patchAuto
Download the grouperInstaller.jar, and make a grouper.installer.properties
# this should be before the version number #download.server.url = http://localhost:8090/grouper-ws/temp download.server.url = http://software.internet2.edu/grouper # default version to install grouper.version = 2.2.1 # default to install or upgrade (default is install) grouperInstaller.default.installOrUpgrade = patch # default app to upgrade: api, ui, ws, or client grouperInstaller.default.appToUpgrade = ui # default of directory where app will be installed grouperInstaller.default.installDirectory = /opt/tomcats/tomcat_d/webapps/grouper_v2_2 grouperInstaller.default.existingInstalledDirectory = /opt/tomcats/tomcat_d/webapps/grouper_v2_2 ############################## ## Autorun properties ## ## If you uncomment one of these properties it will be used as empty, only uncomment to use ## ############################## #### set this to true to try to use defaults for everything. Only things without default values will need to be set grouperInstaller.autorun.useDefaultsAsMuchAsAvailable = true
Make a shell script to kick it off: run.sh
#!/bin/bash export JAVA_HOME=/opt/java6 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH /sbin/service tomcat_d stop cd /opt/grouper/2.2/patchAuto java -cp .:grouperInstaller.jar edu.internet2.middleware.grouperInstaller.GrouperInstaller rm -rf /opt/tomcats/tomcat_d/work/Catalina /sbin/service tomcat_d start
Make a cron to schedule this daily
00 7 * * * echo `date` > /tmp/grouper_2_2_autopatch.out ; /opt/grouper/2.2/patchAuto/run.sh >> /tmp/grouper_2_2_autopatch.out 2>&1
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