daemon not starting up

jbrearley · 05-09-2006, 01:23 PM

I have put my daemon shell code in /etc/rc.d/init.d but it doesnt get started when the PC reboots. What am I missing?

The code runs fine in a terminal, has all the standard stop/start/status/etc command line options. I am running Fedora Core 5.

bathory · 05-09-2006, 04:02 PM

You should use the "chkconfig" to add the daemon starting script to the desired runlevels. Read

Code:

man chkconfig

for more details.

jbrearley · 05-11-2006, 10:54 AM

Thanks for the pointer to chkconfig. That did the trick. For the benefit of othere, here are more details:

• Daemon start / stop sequence is controlled by utility chkconfig

• Type: man chkconfig
• Not sure where chkconfig stores its data file

• See sample daemons shell scripts in /etc/init.d

• Each daemon script needs to support primary command line options of start, stop, status, restart
• Some daemons support secondary commands line options condrestart, etc

• In order for chkconfig to accept your new daemon, you need the following two comment lines in the script

# chkconfig: - 25 75
# description: whatever your daemon does

• To activate your new daemon, do the following

• Type: cp <daemon_name> /etc/init.d
• Type: chkconfig --add <daemon_name>
• By default, the daemon is setup in the "off" state
• Type: chkconfig --level 0123456 <daemon_name> on
• This turns on the daemon
• Type: chkconfig --list
• Your new daemon should be showing "on" state for all 7 runlevels
• The new daemon will get started automatically on the next reboot
• If you don't want to reboot now, you can type: <daemon_name> start
• Type: <daemon_name> status