From: James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> > I have pasted the code below from my "restart" clause but from what I can > tell, it is killing the app but not restarting it, I think because the > killing process is still in action so when it start the app again it just > gets killed straight away. If I enter "/etc/init.d/my_app restart" the app > is terminated but does not start again, entering "/etc/init.d/my_app start" > immediately after fires it up straight away so there is no problem there; You kill all "*my_app*" processes and your init script is called... "my_app_..."? ^_^ Also, it is easier to create functions for start, stop, etc... Then restart = start; stop Have a look at other init scripts. JD