How to setup the okChat server on UNIX/Linux in the crontab

• First download and install the okChat server in some folder
  
• Create a new user okchat
  <shell> useradd okchat -d /public/chat/server
  <shell>cd /public/chat
  <shell>chown -R okchat server
  <shell>chgrp -R okchat server
  <shell>passwd okchat
  Set some password for okchat user
  
• Create some shell script to start, stop and restart the server
  or use our default script and copy it to /public/chat/server
  Note: Change the valiables first please.
  <shell>chmod a+x /public/chat/okchat
  
• Set the editor for your Console
  <shell>export EDITOR=vi
  
• Change the user to okchat
  <shell>su - okchat
  
• Edit the crontab
  <shell>vi /etc/cron.allow
  and allow okchat to add cron jobs
  <shell>crontab -e
  and put this or read first the man pages for crontab and cron - this will check every 5 min. if the server is started and if not will restart it:
  1,6,11,16,21,26,31,36,41,46,51,56  * * * *   /public/chat/server/startokchat.sh status CLEAN
  
• If you want put it in your init.d (only for specialists)
  
• Start the server
  <shell>su  - okchat
  <shell>sh startokchat.sh star CLEAR &