Adding new service to a runlevel.

atlesn · 12-20-2003, 04:33 PM

Hi all!

I downloaded a webserver (Abyss), because I'm to stupid to use apache. But I'm having some difficulties running it as a daemon automatticly at boot-time. When i just run "abyssws -d" at the prompt however, it works fine.

How do you add new services into a runlevel in debian 3.0 (should be the same in other dists.)?

miaviator278 · 12-20-2003, 04:52 PM

man init
man rc.d

not sure if rc.d is a manpage?

there is a set of folders or scripts in your /etc directory problably in rc.d each should be an rc.x script, they run all nessacary services for a certain runlevel, if you add a script to run abyssws to your init 3 multiuser runlevel it will start at boot.

Technoslave · 12-20-2003, 04:59 PM

since you're running redhat, you'll also want to check out:

man chkconfig
and
man service

Hopefully this is a good start for you.

Mara · 12-20-2003, 05:01 PM

Find out the runlevel you'd like to run the service on (to list your current one, use teh command 'runlevel') and look into /etc/. Inside (among ither things) you have drectories like rcX.d/ where X is the runlevel. Inside every directory you have symlinks to starting scripts (script names are SXXsomething; they're run in the order of XX). What you need to do is write such a script. To make things easier, there's /etc/init.d/skeleton. It's a file you fill with the right commands to run and stop the service and the script is ready. Very simple example:

Code:

NAME=progname
case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting $NAME"
        command_to_start
        echo "."
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $NAME "
        command_to_stop
        echo "."
        ;;
esac
exit 0

atlesn · 12-20-2003, 05:09 PM

That simple!?
Thx for your hlp!

kater0000 · 06-06-2004, 04:56 PM

i want to do exactly the same, but my only problem is that i am not running smoothwall express, i tried to use the same script, and i put it in /etc/rc.d/init.d, but abyss did not start? is it me or is it smoothwall ?