[CentOS] Assistance with startup script

Thu Jun 1 17:58:47 UTC 2006
Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net>

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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