[rhn-users] How to create startup script which start and stop certain services automatically.

[Christopher L. Barnard]

Put it in /etc/rc2.d.

Or put "startDMS" in /etc/init.d and then create the symlink
in /etc/rc2.d that points S97startDMS -> ../init.d/startDMS.

-- 
Christopher L. Barnard
---------------------------------------------------------------------
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On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 18:54 +0530, Pravin Uttam Kharat wrote:
> HI,
> 
> 
> 
> I couldn't understand in this procedure.
> I have a created a script in vi S97startDMS. This contains following
> line
> /opt/DMS/ctlscript.sh start
> Now  where to put this script to run at start up.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
>  
> 
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Bill Watson <bill at magicdigits.com>
> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:44 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>         > On 28Jun2010 10:16, Christopher L. Barnard
>         <cbarnard at rush.edu> wrote:
>         > | On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 15:08 +0530, Pravin Uttam Kharat
>         wrote:
>         > | > I have RHEL 5 I installed Bitnami Joomla on it.I want to
>         configure a
>         > | > startup script which run that script when RHEL 5 Machine
>         start and
>         > | > automatically shut down machine on mentioned time.
>         Please suggest any
>         > | > tool for this......
>         > |
>         > | [ Excellent description of the SnnFOO script scheme... ]
>         > | You can put it all in one script, and that is much easier
>         for other
>         > | individuals to understand what you are doing.  For
>         'start', the script
>         > | is called with the command line parameter of "start".
>         Likewise 'stop'
>         > | is called with the command line parameter of "stop".  So
>         just switch on
>         > | the command line parameter and you can put the script
>         in /etc/init.d
>         > | with a symlink to /etc/rc2.d/S****** and
>         to /etc/rc0.d/K******
>         >
>         > And for your second requirement, have the "start" script use
>         the "at"
>         > command to schedule a run of the "stop" script at a suitable
>         time.
>         
>         Only if you want the script to be alive for a finite time.  If
>         the need
>         is for the app to start gracefully on system startup and stop
>         gracefully
>         on system shutdown, then 'at' should definitely not be used.
>          If it
>         should run for oh, say, the first 17 hours after powerup, then
>         yes the
>         at command should be used.
>         
>         --
>         Christopher L. Barnard
>         ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>         Comment your code as though the maintainer will be a homicidal
>         maniac
>         who knows where you live.
>         
>         
>         ************** I had to leave this tag line - it's too good!
>         The source stated to start with the machine start and end at
>         "on mentioned
>         time". If the mentioned time is other than the machine shut
>         down time, then
>         a crontab entry calling the "K50scriptname stop" would do
>         well.
>         
>         Also it seems that the "RedHat" way to do rc#.d these days is
>         to place the
>         file without Snn or Knn into /etc/init.d with the following
>         lines at the
>         top:
>         #!/bin/bash
>         #
>         # chkconfig: - 91 35
>         # description: stuff this script does comment here
>         
>         The 91 is the starting sequence within rc2.d (S91) and the 35
>         is the
>         stopping sequence in rc0.d (K35) and the 91 and 35 are
>         adjustable to your
>         needs as long as they are 2 digits each.
>         
>         Then
>         chkconfig --add scriptname
>         chkconfig scriptname on
>         
>         ^^^^ The above is from memory and to be taken with a grain of
>         salt, lemon,
>         and tequila. Hope this helps.
>         Bill Watson
>         bill at magicdigits.com
>         
>         
>         
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