[CentOS] Assistance with startup script

[Michael Grinnell]

On Jun 1, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote:

> Will McDonald wrote:
>
>> On 01/06/06, Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Could someone give me some assistance in getting this startup  
>>> script to
>>> conform to chkconfig and such where the service will start up after
>>> networking comes up, and then shut down when networking goes away?
>>> Where all do entries need to be made, and what would they consist  
>>> of?
>>
>>
>> On a simplistic level, just adding the chkconfig line somewhere near
>> the top should do the job.
>>
>> [wmcdonald at willspc ~]$ /sbin/chkconfig --list network
>> network         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
>> [wmcdonald at willspc ~]$ grep chkconfig /etc/rc.d/init.d/network
>> # chkconfig: 2345 10 90
>>
>> So, network's starting in runlevels 2, 3, 4 & 5. It's starting with a
>> weighting, or priority, of 10 and stopping with one of 90.
>>
>> If you added something like...
>>
>> # chkconfig: 345 20 80
>> # description: Does LDM stuff
>>
>> ... after your shabang #!/bin/sh line that should suffice. That would
>> start your LDM script after networking in runlevels 345 and stop it
>> before networking's stopped when hopping back down through the
>> runleves.
>>
>> I can't recall if you need a "chkconfig --add ldm" but if your
>> script's not visible in "chkconfig --list" then try it. The chkconfig
>> man page's RUNLEVEL FILES section should have all the info you need.
>>
>> If you wanted to go the whole hog you could also look at integrating
>> your startup stuff into /var/lock/subsys etc. Just have a look  
>> through
>> an existing init script.
>>
>> Will.
>> _______________________________________________
>>
> Thanks Will, and others.  Now if I can just get the script to be  
> recognized!  Really weird.  If I do a ./ldm start, *from* that  
> directory, it says "no such file"  Not sure I quite understand why,  
> but it's physically there.
>
> Sam
>
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Whenever I'm troubleshooting startup files, or shell scripts in  
general, I find that running it like
[root at foo.com init.d]# sh -x httpd start
helps.  It runs the script file and traces each line, so you can see  
where it fails.

If it were a bad shebang line, I would expect to see (under CentOS 4.3)
[root at foo.com init.d]# ./httpd start
-bash: ./httpd: /bin/bashr: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

HTH

Michael