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 -- Sam W.Drinkard -- sam at wa4phy.net WEB http://wa4phy.net Augusta Mesonet cell 706.825.8513 Home 706.868.7253 MAIL 4438 Branchwood Drive, Martinez Georgia, 30907-1304 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: sam.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 326 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060601/faa904cd/attachment-0005.vcf>