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Howto start script at boot ?

Hi,

I have a SuSE 9.3 Prof. install and have my own firewall script, therefore i have disabled SuSEFirewall2.
What i would like to do at bootime is check if my network, dhcp and Samba is up and running and then start my firewall script.
I have my script in /etc/init.d and added my firewall script with Yast2 (start at runlevel 3 wich is my default runlevel), but my firewall script is always executed before my network, dhcp and Samba is up and therefore i always need to start my firewall script manually after i have logged in.
Can someone help me out please?

Thanks.
Jimmy

Is there a boot.local file in init.d? i think (though may be wrong) that the contents of this get executed at the required time.

Put a symbolic link from /etc/rc3.d (for runlevel 3 - if not change the 3 to 1, 2, 4 or 5) to your script in /etc/init.d. The name of the link should begin with S (upper case) followed by 2 numbers. The scripts are executed in the order of the names of the links, so S50xyz will run before S51abc.
I am not familiar with SuSE, so Yast2 may already have put a link there, in which case you probably just need to rename it.

Hi all,

Sorry for the late response but i was ill :-(

I tried your suggestions but with no luck, however i have found a nice solution that works for me.
After some searching on internet i found some more info and have written a little script to
check if network is up and then start my firewall.

Here's my script :

Code:

#! /bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides:          Firewall

# Required-Start:    $network $syslog

# Default-Start:    3 5

# Default-Stop:      0 1 2 6

# Short-Description: Custom IPTables Firewall Rules 

# Description:      Starting Firewall

# continued on second line by '#<TAB>'

# should contain enough info for the runlevel editor

# to give admin some idea what this service does and

# what it's needed for ...

# (The Short-Description should already be a good hint.)

### END INIT INFO



DAEMON=/etc/init.d/firewall



test -x $DAEMON || exit 0



. /etc/rc.status

rc_reset



case "$1" in

    start)

    echo -n "Starting Firewall: "

    start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/firewall.pid --exec $DAEMON

    rc_status -v

    ;;

    stop)

    echo -n "Shutting down Firewall:"

    `iptables --flush`

    rc_status -v

    ;;



    restart)

    echo -n "Restarting Firewall: "

    echo -n "...shutting down Firewall..."

    `iptables --flush`

    rc_status -v

    echo -n "Starting Firewall: "

    start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/firewall.pid --exec $DAEMON

    rc_status -v

    ;;



    *)

    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"

    exit 1

esac

exit 0

The pidfile option does not seem to work, but i believe that's because its only a set of firewall rules
and not really a executable.

Cheers
Jimmy