startup services in AIX

sanjeevkchopra · 05-17-2006, 01:16 AM

Hi all,

Can anybody tell me how an application can be made a startup service in AIX.

Thanks and regards,
Sanjeev Kumar.

AbrahamJose · 05-17-2006, 06:15 AM

Do u mean services?
In AIX they are called daemons.

startsrc -g group_of_daemons
startsrc -s subsystem_daemon
Eg. startsrc -g spooler
startsrc -s lpd

SEE man startsrc
Also see stopsrc

AbrahamJose · 05-22-2006, 08:31 PM

My previous answer was with out properly understanding the question.

Is my anwer enough 4 u.
Or do u mean an autostartup after system boot.

Use one of the file, of ur choice, /etc/rc.*

Michael AM · 05-27-2006, 09:30 AM

AIX supports both the system V interface of /etc/rc.d .... as well as a "System Resource Controller" (startsrc, stopsrc, refreshsrc, lssrc).

To add applications to the SRC system, use the command defsys.

To control existing AIX subsystems you can use smit to set default (i.e. boot settings).

smit otherserv

is the fastpath.

sanjeevkchopra · 06-28-2006, 05:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AbrahamJose

Do u mean services?
In AIX they are called daemons.

startsrc -g group_of_daemons
startsrc -s subsystem_daemon
Eg. startsrc -g spooler
startsrc -s lpd

SEE man startsrc
Also see stopsrc

Suppose if we want to make tomcat as startup service in AIX how can we proceed?

AbrahamJose · 07-12-2006, 02:51 AM

I haven't much idea about tomcat.
How do you start it manually.
I mean the command/script to start it.

sanjeevkchopra · 07-20-2006, 01:14 AM

if we put a daemon script(say with name my_script) in the /etc/init.d/ directory in AIX
then how we have to proceed in order to make it startup service.

I want to know all the commands to be executed stepwise.

Thanks and Regards
Sanjeev.

jyoung4 · 08-23-2006, 01:14 PM

To get a daemon to start when the system in rebooted, you can follow the standard Sys V procedure of creating start/stop shell scripts in the /etc/rc.d/* directories. I created the following two scripts:
One moves the system from run level 2 to run level 3. The second, starts both Samba and Tomcat. All of the startup scripts we create run at run level 3. (That's our convention, not a requirement.) The directory /etc/rc2.d/samples on most AIX systems has a README.txt file and some more sample start/stop scripts.

Script #1 - /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S99jay

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

##################################################
# name: S99jay
# purpose: script to kick the system to run level 3
##################################################

case "$1" in
start )
	telinit 3
	;;
stop )
	;;
* )
	echo "Usage: $0 (start | stop)"
	exit 1
esac

Script #2 - /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S70jay

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

##################################################
# name: S70jay
# purpose: script to start both the wkiki and samba
##################################################


case "$1" in
start )
	/usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
	ERROR=$?

	/usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D
	ERROR2=$?
	if [ $ERROR2 -ne 0 ]
	then
		ERROR=1
	fi

	return $ERROR
	/z/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31/bin/startup.sh &
	;;
stop )
	;;
* )
	echo "Usage: $0 (start | stop)"
	exit 1
esac