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

[Pravin Uttam Kharat]

I put script file path in inittab file to start script...........and it
works....

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Christopher L. Barnard
<cbarnard at rush.edu>wrote:

> Put it in /etc/rc2.d.
>
> Or put "startDMS" in /etc/init.d and then create the symlink
> in /etc/rc2.d that points S97startDMS -> ../init.d/startDMS.
>
> --
> Christopher L. Barnard
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Comment your code as though the maintainer will be a homicidal maniac
> who knows where you live.
>
>
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 18:54 +0530, Pravin Uttam Kharat wrote:
> > HI,
> >
> >
> >
> > I couldn't understand in this procedure.
> > I have a created a script in vi S97startDMS. This contains following
> > line
> > /opt/DMS/ctlscript.sh start
> > Now  where to put this script to run at start up.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Bill Watson <bill at magicdigits.com>
> > wrote:
> >         On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:44 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >         > 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.
> >
> >         Only if you want the script to be alive for a finite time.  If
> >         the need
> >         is for the app to start gracefully on system startup and stop
> >         gracefully
> >         on system shutdown, then 'at' should definitely not be used.
> >          If it
> >         should run for oh, say, the first 17 hours after powerup, then
> >         yes the
> >         at command should be used.
> >
> >         --
> >         Christopher L. Barnard
> >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >         Comment your code as though the maintainer will be a homicidal
> >         maniac
> >         who knows where you live.
> >
> >
> >         ************** I had to leave this tag line - it's too good!
> >         The source stated to start with the machine start and end at
> >         "on mentioned
> >         time". If the mentioned time is other than the machine shut
> >         down time, then
> >         a crontab entry calling the "K50scriptname stop" would do
> >         well.
> >
> >         Also it seems that the "RedHat" way to do rc#.d these days is
> >         to place the
> >         file without Snn or Knn into /etc/init.d with the following
> >         lines at the
> >         top:
> >         #!/bin/bash
> >         #
> >         # chkconfig: - 91 35
> >         # description: stuff this script does comment here
> >
> >         The 91 is the starting sequence within rc2.d (S91) and the 35
> >         is the
> >         stopping sequence in rc0.d (K35) and the 91 and 35 are
> >         adjustable to your
> >         needs as long as they are 2 digits each.
> >
> >         Then
> >         chkconfig --add scriptname
> >         chkconfig scriptname on
> >
> >         ^^^^ The above is from memory and to be taken with a grain of
> >         salt, lemon,
> >         and tequila. Hope this helps.
> >         Bill Watson
> >         bill at magicdigits.com
> >
> >
> >
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