Re: running a shell script in the init file

Kevin Williams wrote:

>All,
>
>I'm working on a project where I have to start up some commands that run
>for the life of the computer's up time.  I would like these to start
>when the computer boots up, and stop after the computer shuts down
>(running Redhat).
>
>What I have to run are pretty simple commands:
>1.  multiple perl calls
>2.  multiple command tail -f log_file_name | logger local3.info
>
>What I figured I would do would be to create a startup script for the
>perl commands and another for the tail commands (shell script that
>executes them all).
>
>>From my understanding, I will have to have a start, stop, and restart
>method (which calls stop and start).  The start method I can handle
>(simply call the command and append the &), but how do I go about
>stopping the bash scripts?  
>
>Thanks in advance,
>  
>


Log the pids as part of your script(s) to a file and loop over them with 
a kill -9 to halt them?
or assuming your scripts are named uniquely a killall bobjoe.PL ?