Postgresql-8.0.1

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Matt Morgan wrote:
> One more dumb question related to this interesting topic: is there any
> more to getting a service set up than having a startup'shutdown script
> in /etc/init.d? That is, once you have that script there, will
> 'chkconfig' and 'service' start working? Or is there still more that
> must be done.

chkconfig depends on special format of comment section at the beginning 
of startup script.  Basically, it usually looks something like this 
(example taken from sshd startup script):

# chkconfig: 2345 55 25
# description: OpenSSH server daemon
#
# processname: sshd
# config: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
# config: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub
# config: /etc/ssh/ssh_random_seed
# config: /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# pidfile: /var/run/sshd.pid

For chkconfig, the first line is most important.  It tells in what run 
levels this script should be started (2, 3, 4, and 5 in this example) 
when you enable the service using "chkconfig service on".  It also tells 
that links from rc?.d directories should be created as S55sshd and 
K25sshd (last two parameters).  The rest, you can usually live without it.

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