Hi all,

I'm trying to start/stop Informix along with my linux os start/stop.
For this I've made a test script in order to test this but I'm facing a problem. The service is starting along with the system but when I'm stopping (rebooting) the system it doesn't run the "K10test" script.

root@rhl5 ~# cd /etc/init.d/
root@rhl5 init.d# cat test
#!/bin/sh
#
# Init file for test server daemon
#
# chkconfig: 345 99 10
# description: test server daemon
#
# processname: test
#
start()
{
echo "Start test script at `date`" >> /root/test.log
sleep 3
}

stop()
{
echo "Stop test script at `date`" >> /root/test.log
sleep 3
}

case $1 in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
esac
root@rhl5 init.d#
root@rhl5 init.d# chkconfig test --add
root@rhl5 init.d# chkconfig test --list
test 0 : off 1: off 2: off 3: on 4: on 5: on 6: off
root@rhl5 etc# for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6; do ls rc$i.d/*test*;done
rc0.d/K10test
rc1.d/K10test
rc2.d/K10test
rc3.d/S99test
rc4.d/S99test
rc5.d/S99test
rc6.d/K10test

root@rhl5 init.d#

After sistem reboot you can see that the /etc/init.d/test stop is not executed.

root@rhl5 init.d # cat /root/test.log
Start test script at Mon Feb 9 07:30:19 EET 2009
Start test script at Mon Feb 9 07:50:16 EET 2009


Can you please tell what I'm missing?

Thanks

Hi,
Can you switch between run-levels 3 and 2 (or 5 and 2) and see if the script runs as expected - also, does it run on shutdown as opposed to reboot

Mark

Hi,

I've figured out what I was missing.

In my script I should create a file in the path: /var/lock/subsys/<service name>, in ma case the script should look like:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Init file for test server daemon
#
# chkconfig: 345 99 10
# description: test server daemon
#
# processname: test
#
start()
{
echo "Start test script at `date`" >> /root/test.log
touch /var/lock/subsys/test
sleep 3
}

stop()
{
echo "Stop test script at `date`" >> /root/test.log
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/test
sleep 3
}

case $1 in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
esac

The idea is that the system looks in this directory in order to know which services to stop. And if it doesn't find a lock file it will not try to stop it.