On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Alexander Farber alexander.farber@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
sorry, for 1 more question on CentOS 5 -> CentOS 6 migration.
On my old CentOS 5.7 machine I have the following line:
pref:3:respawn:/bin/su -c '/usr/local/pref/pref.pl >/tmp/pref-`date +%a`.txt 2>&1' afarber
and this has served me well, I don't want to install anything else like daemontools etc. - to keep my web-server easily reinstallable (or movable to another hoster).
But now I have migrated to CentOS 6.0, added that line and the "init q", but nothing happens - as indeed promised by the comments in the new /etc/inittab.
Where should I move my line, which docs to read?
The pref.pl is a poll()ing TCP-sockets daemon for a game
Thank you Alex
This sounds like something you should be using the 'service' framework for, instead of inittab. In CentOS 5 you would create a script in /etc/init.d and start the service from there. I'm not yet familiar with CentOS 6, but I would bet looking for docs on how to do that will lead you in the right direction.
-☙ Brian Mathis ❧-