On 11/22/2010 1:37 PM, Kill Script wrote:
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> It may be tempting to use the rc.local, but that's the quick and dirty
> way and not good for the long-term sustainability and management of a
> system. There's no way to individually control any service running
> from there, and no way to stop it on shutdown.
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> Yeah, thank you. I talked with the person who wrote the Java program,
> and he essentially said the same thing.
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> I'm looking through his suggestions now, and he suggested a shutdown
> script. I others who have examples with pid.txt and "dirname $0". Not
> sure what these are and am googling them now.
Standard init scripts use some common functions to write the process ID
of the running program in a standard place so the 'stop' operation can
find it. A side effect of this is that if you have multiple instances
of a program running you have to have separate init scripts with
different names to control them. Also, you generally need root access
to start/stop with this facility. If your program doesn't otherwise
need root access and you want an ordinary user to have control you may
want to do it some other way.
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Les Mikesell
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