inittab on sles 8

javier_ccs · 09-26-2006, 01:54 PM

hello folks...

i need to add the scheduler of tsm to the inittab of one of my servers with sles 8.

start of the scheduler:
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/startsched.sh start

stop of the scheduler:
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/startsched.sh stop

i was googleing around and found this:
step 1:
create a script

Code:

# vi /etc/init.d/levanta-tsm.sh
# chmod 744 /etc/init.d/levanta-tsm.sh

step 2:
inside the script

Code:

#!/bin/bash
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/startsched.sh start

step 3:
create a link on the run control

Code:

# cd /etc/init.d/rc3.d
# ln -s ../levanta-tsm.sh S99levanta-tsm.sh

step 4:
indicate the system to recognize the change

Code:

# insserv

step 5:
verify on the chkconfig

Code:

# chkconfig -l |grep levanta-tsm.sh
levanta-tsm.sh                 0:off  1:off  2:off  3:on   4:off  5:off
6:off

so far it seems easy and the right thing to do, but somebody told me that it would not work since it would erase it automatically, and that it was not the right thing to do, that i should use the skeleton...

i was checking out the skeleton but it seems hard to understand to someone like me with no experience on shell scripting...

can anyone help me?, is it or is it not the right thing to do?, does anyone has a skeleton-like script that can help me?

please....

ahedler · 10-06-2006, 01:50 AM

I'm pretty sure that you don't want to run the init.d startup scripts inside the inittab; look to see what's being started by the script and put that in the inittab. I'm pretty sure ours just does 'dsmc sched' with the appropriate parameters for inittab, and does 'respawn' to make sure it always runs. I think if this is done, you don't need to call anything from /etc/init.d, nor do you need a rc?.d startup script.