Confused about init scripts expectations

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Jon Trauntvein wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I am developing a daemon application to handle datalogger communications. 
> I have developed the init script that is included at the bottom of this
> mail based upon examples that I found on the web.  This script runs very
> well from the command line.  However, when I attempt to use the gnome
> server configuration tool to start csilgrnet, the tool locks up and has to
> be aborted.  I have searched in vain for guidelines for writing init
> scripts and have no idea what the gui is looking for and not finding.  Any
> assistance or advise would be gratefully accepted.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jon Trauntvein
> 
For a guide to writing them, look at the documentation for the
initscipts package. The file you are looking for is called
sysvinitfiles.

Mikkel
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