Hi all,
i have a simple question,
and it goes like this,How to make my MRTG starts as a service?
Something like this when root@xxxxx#mrtg.start and it will start the mrtg,and the rest.
And it runs auto when i (re)boot.
Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks before

Usually you write a script for it, and stick the script in /etc/init.d

An example - fedora starts iptables as a service ... /etc/init.d/iptables start

can u give me the script coz i have no idea at all ?

It's been a while since I've seen the init.d scripts for fedora.
You should look at /etc/init.d/iptables for the general layout.

A bash script tutorial:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
(because you're gonna need it sometime.)

The script needs to accept input commands "start" and "stop", with each running the appropriate command.

If I imagine I have a service I want to call "foobar" ... from cli I would normally start it with /sbin/fubar, and stop it with /sbin/fubar -k ... then I'd write a script (call it fubar) containing something like:
(I think - it's been a while)

Then it will start at the command: /etc/init.d fubar start ; and stop at the command /etc/init.d/fubar stop .

These scripts usually contain other lines to idiotproof it (which is why I called this example "fubar"). Normally there is more than one command that needs to be run for start and stop - you just stick in whatever the sequence of cli commands would be. You'll see that in the /etc/init.d/iptables script - there, the commands will be in a function (I'm guessing) which is called from the case/esac loop.

I have a suspicion this is not exactly what you want to do though.
This will start your script as a service - but what do you hope to acheive thus? Perhaps you just want MRTG started at boot?

Problem solved,i'm using script from the http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...itProcess.html .
But thanks anyway Simon, i try to understand both scripts and i did it.Thanks for helping Simon.