service file on lubuntu

Jinux75 · 01-20-2020, 06:05 AM

Up front i am very sorry for my previous thread about the difference between, you know what. I still like to understand so i will try to ask it in steps, perhaps that will give me an answer and keep out any flames?

If i have a service file with this contents in it:

Code:

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
DESC="Some program"
NAME=program
USERNAME=me
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME  <-------

Why is the SCRIPTNAME pointed to the program in /etc/init.d/ that does not exist there? Keep in mind that there are 2 different ways to start the program and i choose not init.d . . .

Do i manually need to point it to the program? Or does it not matter? Please help me understand?

berndbausch · 01-20-2020, 11:51 PM

I don't know what you mean by "service file" and where you found this file. This is most definitely not a systemd service unit, but looks like the first lines of a SysV init script, which would normally be located at /etc/init.d. Perhaps the SCRIPTNAME file doesn't exist because you chose not to use init.d.

Jinux75 · 01-21-2020, 05:50 AM

Thank you berndbausch