RE: rc.d_scripts/start_up_files

Hey, thanks!  It was just csh/bash differences (I was using #!csh in the
first line and 'switch' stuff instead of 'case' stuff - It works fine now -
thanks again.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Cameron Simpson
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 8:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: rc.d_scripts/start_up_files

On 19:45 17 Apr 2003, dhd <[email protected]> wrote:
| I'm having trouble getting a few services to start automatically.  I'm
using
| RH 7.2 and I'm using csh as my login shell.  I've been trying to
accomplish
| this by creating a rc.d script, but can't get it working.  The command in
my
| script works properly when I test it in a terminal but doesn't run when on
| restart/relogin.

Startup scripts run are boot time or shutdown time. Not at login time.

| Does anyone know of a good resource I could access for
| info on how this process is structured?

Scripts expect a single argument, being "start" or "stop". On RedHat
"restart" and "status" are egenrally implemented too. So the script usually
has the form:

        #!/bin/sh
        ... do some setup stuff, like read configs etc ...
        case "$1" iin
          start)
            start the daemon or service here
            ;;
          stop)
            stop the daemon or service here
            ;;
          status)
            report on the upness of the daemon
            ;;
          restart)
            "$0" stop
            "$0" start
            ;;
          *)echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}" >&2; exit 2
            ;;
        esac

| I placed the script /etc/rc2.d  Do

Sounds like you're writing in csh. Startup scripts are Bourne shell.
See "man sh" for details. Or just copy and hack an existing script.

| I also need a reference to the script in my /.cshrc file?

No.

Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        [email protected]    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/

Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this
thinking that caused the problem in the first place.
- Mark Ovens <[email protected]>



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