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Reputation: 472

How to start/stop/restart Linux services and how to update their configuration files from a Java program

I am looking for a portable way to update the configuration files of a Linux service e.g., ssh, and then restarting that service from a Java program. For example, the Java program fetches some user names from a remote database, updates the AllowUsers directive of the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and then restarts the ssh service.

Especially if you can point me to an API that can manage the text based conf files from a Java program, that will be great. Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 321

Answers (2)

Jim Garrison
Jim Garrison

Reputation: 86774

Here's a good place to start: Comparison of Open Source Configuration Management Systems

Most configuration management systems are written in scripting languages (Perl, Python, etc), but the list contains two libraries written in Java.

Upvotes: 1

Mister Smith
Mister Smith

Reputation: 28168

You can process files with standard classes like BufferedReader and StringTokenizer for splitting.

To execute commands, Runtime or ProcessBuilder classes.

Upvotes: 0

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