start a daemon script at startup

haxxor23 · 05-11-2007, 02:33 PM

I have a centos webserver, with a chat program that uses a complied c daemon. I have to start it by hand every time i reboot by going to the path
/home/user/data/daemon

and then typing ./daemon

thats all, no config or additional params necessary.

I want this daemon script to start automatically at server startup, but I can't figure out how. Ive added the following line to rc.local but it doesn't work

/home/user/data/daemon/daemon

so what am I doing wrong, and how can i get it to load at startup?

thanks

jailbait · 05-11-2007, 03:43 PM

"Ive added the following line to rc.local but it doesn't work"

What distribution are you using? Not all distributions use rc.local as the place for user startup scripts.

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haxxor23 · 05-12-2007, 07:59 AM

Its centos 4.3 , with a modified kernel that runs on Virtuozzo (it's a vps). kernel is 2.6.9-023stab043.1