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

[Cameron Simpson]

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.
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