startup script for Solaris

chrisfirestar · 03-08-2004, 08:29 PM

I am building a startup script for a service in Solaris

I have written a script and placed in in the appropriate folder (i think)
i have renamed it S70startup and placed it in the rc2.d rc3.d folder (i think this is correct I dont have the machine here with me now)

this is the format of the script

Code:

#!/sbin/sh
# Script

case "$1" in
 start)

   ;;

 restart)
   ;;

 stop)

   ;;

*)
 echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
 exit 1
 ;;
esac

exit 0

What i need to know is:
1 if this format is correct
2 where to place the files
3 anything else? I have heard about using inittab file but i though that was primarily used for System Services?

Thanks in advance
Chris

neo77777 · 03-08-2004, 09:48 PM

Well, you might think to consider when do you need the service to start, if it needs a completion of some services before it can be safely started, and so on, so place it in appropriate runlevel; and not to cluter your system pu it in /etc/init.d/ and make symbolic links like S71startup in the appropriate run level. The reason I said appropriate and before it can be safely started, conider the following, you are creating a startup script to mount remote shared with nfs, but if you do it before any networking service or more importantely nfs client starts you would not succeed, following me?

chrisfirestar · 03-08-2004, 09:51 PM

the script has no requirements like that.. just needs to be started on boot (before log in)

which number is that?

neo77777 · 03-08-2004, 11:22 PM

well runlevel 3 will be appropriate ( /etc/rc3.d/ ), after all it never hurts to start it last, does it?