Running weblogic as a service on NT

Question

We are currently trying to run weblogic as a service on Windows NT. Yet the service
has hung once and run out of memory once. The hardware and software specification
is listed below.
Hardware
System     Intel
CPU:     Dual 866 MHz or faster
Memory:     500 MB
Hard Drives:     2 x 10 GB RAID-1 System Drive
Network:     Static IP allocation and TCP/IP network protocolTwo Fast Ethernet 10/100
Software
Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack Typical InstallBEA WebLogic Version 5.1 with Service Pack
8 and JDBC drivers for MSSQL ServerJava 2 SDK Version 1.3.1 RC 2
The WebLogic server has been using the srvany.exe and instsrv.ex utilities (part
of the NT Resource Kit) . Note that it is necessary to use the srvany utility rather
than the custom BEA service utilities in order to allow the passing of command line
parameters to the JVM. An important JVM parameter is –Xrs which prevents JDK1.3
applications which run as a service on NT from shutting-down when the user who started
the service logs out. This problem does not occur on Win2K systems.
1.     Set-up a ‘weblogic’ user account that is a member of the Users group
and has explicitly assigned 'log on as a service' right.
2.     At a command prompt install srvany with the command
INSTSRV WGO_server c:\winnt\system32\srvany.exe
3.     Use the services applet (in the Control Panel) to ensure that the service will
run using the weblogic account and that the service is set for automatic startup
4.     Use the Registry Editor REGEDT32.exe to configure srvany as follows:
a.     Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentContrelSet\Services\WGO_server and
select Add Key from the edit menu.
b.     The key to be added should have the name “Parameters” – the
class field may be left empty.
c.     Highlight the newly created Parameters key and select the Add Value option from
the edit menu. The name of the value to be added is “Application” and
the type of value is REG_SZ. When you o.k. these options, you will be asked to provide
the string value representing the application to be triggered by servany –
type in the path to the startweblogic.cmd file:
c:\weblogic\WGO_server\startweblogic.cmd
d.     With the Parameters key still highlighted, select the Add Value option from the
edit Menu. The name of the value is “AppDirectory” and the type is REG_SZ.
Set the directory in which the application runs by typing in the path
c:\weblogic\WGO_server
5.     To start the weblogic server, return to the Service applet in the control panel
and start the service named WGO_server. To shutdown the service, first run the script
c:\weblogic\WGO_server\shutdown to shutdown weblogic cleanly, wait a few moments
and then stop the WGO_server service via the Service applet.
If anyone has experienced a similar problem please let me know
Thanks
Jo

Answer 1

I would look at all the other startup script you have on your machine already.
They are usually placed in /etc/init.d and these files are often linking into /etc/rc3.d
I suggest you google on how to setup a service for your flavour of linux as they are not all the same.