On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Brian Mathis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian.mathis@gmail.com">brian.mathis@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
It may be tempting to use the rc.local, but that's the quick and dirty<br>
way and not good for the long-term sustainability and management of a<br>
system. There's no way to individually control any service running<br>
from there, and no way to stop it on shutdown.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, thank you. I talked with the person who wrote the Java program, and he essentially said the same thing.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm looking through his suggestions now, and he suggested a shutdown script. I others who have examples with pid.txt and "dirname $0". Not sure what these are and am googling them now.</div>
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