I installed ddclient 3.6.3-131.i586.rpm on a Suse 9.1 distribution

I'm able to start it manually, no problem. But unable to initiate it at boot time.

manual command :
cd /etc/init.d
ddclient start
It work fine!

The configuration file: /etc/ddclient.conf is correctly configured and my IP is updated at wwwdyndns.org

Now to run ddclient at run level 5

Create a symbolic link in /etc/init.d/rc5.d

to create the link: (assuming the script ddclient is in /etc/init.d )

cd /etc/init.d/rc5.d
ln -s ../ddclient S20ddclient

if we give a try:

cd /etc/init.d/rc5.d
./S20ddclient start (That's what the boot will do. I believe...)

Result:
Starting ddclient: S20ddclient: line daemon: command not found

what is the problem here???

Ok, the script is not so big...
There is a Start, stop, restart and status

Here is how the start case looks like:

start)
# Start daemons.
echo -n "Startin ddclient: "
touch /var/lock/subsys/ddclient
daemon ddclient -daemon 300
echo
;;
stop)... and so on...

Could someone please tell me what to do?

regards,

Nitrof

Have you tried running insserv ? Provided you've got a script with right stuff in it in /etc/init.d it'll do it for you - if you haven't got a script use the template in that directory.

daemon doesn't exist on Suse 9.1. so I changed it to start_daemon and now it work!

I can run ddclient manually by simply entering 'ddclient', but there is a problem when invoking the link. It should be looking for '/etc/ddclient.conf' but instead it tries to use uses the link name for the config file. What is wrong here?

/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S17ddclient
FATAL: file /etc/S17ddclient.conf: Cannot open file '/etc/S17ddclient.conf'. (No such file or directory)

/etc/init.d/rc5.d/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2005-04-04 14:36 S17ddclient -> ../ddclient

/etc/init.d
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 91367 2005-04-04 13:36 ddclient

/etc
-rw------- 1 root root 4827 2005-04-04 13:32 ddclient.conf