Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

I have added a "user defined service" named orainfra. I created in /etc/init.d/orainfra script to startup and stop some application services.

I have added the service with:

chkconfig --add orainfra

[root@svr04 ~]# chkconfig --list |grep orainfra
orainfra 0ff 1ff 2ff 3n 4ff 5n 6ff

After this it added the corresponding links in rcX.d correct levels.

This line (into the script) defines the levels to run:

# chkconfig: 35 98 11

At the start of the server I can see that is trying with my service (orainfra) but the service (script) does not executes succesfully. AT startup it does not shows any messages about the succesfull or not of the service execution.

Eventhough once started the server, if I execute manually the service (orainfra) it wors fine:

service orainfra start
or
service orainfra stop

Any idea about why it is not working at the starting up of the server?

can't say mcuh really... can you not put some logging into the scripts to see what's going on? also is the script executable? you can use that "service" thingy to run the files, but i *think* that on boot the scripts are actually executed directly, e.g. "/etc/rc3.d/blahblah start" so make sure starting a service that way works too.

Probably there is missing some environment variable in your script.
Check for related environment variables that are set in your root shell and that aren't defined in the script. Remember the scripts at boot time does not comes from a login shell. Only minimal variables are set and exported to the children processes.

cheers,