The method for starting Snow Owl varies depending on how you installed it.
If you installed Snow Owl with a .tar.gz or zip package, you can start Snow Owl from the command line.
Snow Owl can be started from the command line as follows:
By default, Snow Owl runs in the foreground, prints some of its logs to the standard output (stdout), and can be stopped by pressing Ctrl-C.
All scripts packaged with Snow Owl assume that Bash is available at /bin/bash. As such, Bash should be available at this path either directly or via a symbolic link.
To run Snow Owl as a daemon, use the following command:
Log messages can be found in the $SO_HOME/serviceability/logs/ directory.
The startup scripts provided in the RPM and Debian packages take care of starting and stopping the Snow Owl process for you.
Snow Owl is not started automatically after installation. How to start and stop Snow Owl depends on whether your system uses SysV init or systemd (used by newer distributions). You can tell which is being used by running this command:
Use the chkconfig command to configure Snow Owl to start automatically when the system boots up:
Snow Owl can be started and stopped using the service command:
If Snow Owl fails to start for any reason, it will print the reason for failure to STDOUT. Log files can be found in /var/log/snowowl/.
To configure Snow Owl to start automatically when the system boots up, run the following commands:
Snow Owl can be started and stopped as follows:
These commands provide no feedback as to whether Snow Owl was started successfully or not. Instead, this information will be written in the log files located in /var/log/snowowl/.