On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:53:52 +0200, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:

A commersial CAD application has available a S99 startup script to automatic restart a license server after reboot of the Linux system. Where should this S99 script be located on SLES10 and possibly how to activate it?

Nowhere :) Init scripts belong to /etc/init.d, have the name of the service they start and *must* have an LSB conforming header (see /etc/init.d/skeleton for an example). Set # Required-Start: $ALL to have the script run after anything else. After that call insserv to create the appropriate runlevel links. See 'man insserv' and 'man init.d' for further information. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

----- Original Message ----- From: "Terje J. Hanssen" To: Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 6:53 PM Subject: [opensuse] S99 startup script

Hi list,

A commersial CAD application has available a S99 startup script to automatic restart a license server after reboot of the Linux system. Where should this S99 script be located on SLES10 and possibly how to activate it?

I've tried to save the S99 script in /etc/init.d/rc2.d but this didn't restart the license server. Possibly how to activate it in addition?

Look in your /etc/inittab for these lines near the top (after the big block of comments) # The default runlevel is defined here id:3:initdefault: What number is in your file where mine has :3: ? Probably 3 or 5. Assuming you have a 5 there (since that's the default unless you installed the text-only minimal system) In that case you would need to put it in /etc/init.d/rc5.d You could stop there and most sensible people with better things to do with their lives probably would... But if you're stupid like me and are willing to waste 2 hours just to get the new service to say "starting ... [DONE]" in green text and all official looking like all the other ones, then the more correct way is to modify the script into a suse style script and place it in /etc/init.d without any S99 in it's name. Then suse will manage placing the symlinks with S## and K## in all the appropriate places, and it will be all nicely integrated with suse and yast just like the rest of the services. Let's say the app is called CadKey and the license manager daemon is called cklmd. ( I know there is, or used to be, a cad app called cadkey, I have no idea if they have a linux version or if they have a license daemon or what it's name might be. This is just an example. ) Creat the following file: vi /etc/init.d/cklmd ----------------top------------------ #!/bin/sh # # /etc/init.d/cklmd # # CadKey license manager daemon startup. # ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: cklmd # Should-Start: $ALL # Default-Start: 3 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6 # Description: cklmd is the license manager daemon for CadKey. ### END INIT INFO EXE=/path/to/cklmd DESC="CadKey License Manager" . /etc/rc.status rc_reset return=$rc_done case "$1" in start) checkproc $EXE && { echo -en "\n$DESC is already running." rc_status -s } || { echo -n 'Starting $DESC:' startproc -q $EXE rc_status -v } ;; stop) echo -n 'Stopping $DESC:' killproc -TERM $EXE rc_status -v ;; restart|reload) $0 stop $0 start rc_status ;; status) checkproc $EXE rc_status -v ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}" exit 1 ;; esac rc_exit ---------------------end---------------------- Edit the EXE= line. Put the full path and filename of the license manager executable Edit the DESC= line. Put a suitable descriptive string that will be embedded in messages. Then chmod 755 /etc/init.d/cklmd Then ln -s /etc/init.d/cklmd /sbin/rccklmd Then run "insserv cklmd" At this point you have a new service called "cklmd" that can be enabled/disabled/started/stopped and found within yast just like all the other services. Now, to enable it so that it starts at boot in runlevels 3 and 5 (specified via the specially formatted comments in the script above) you run "chkconfig cklmd on" or you can go into yast and find it in the list of other services and toggle it on/off. Now you can reboot and the license daemon should be running after the reboot, and/or you can start the daemon manually without rebooting the same way as most other services, by running "rc<servicename> <action>". So: to start: rccklmd start to stop: rccklmd stop to check if it's up or down at the moment: rccklmd status The script above is of course a minimal example/sample. It should work just as it is if the license daemon is a simple program that just needs to be run without any other special steps or actions. Some daemons require lockfiles or pid files or config files or environment variables or named pipes (fifos) or device nodes or other daemon processes or special user accounts etc etc etc to be set up in order to run. All such actions will be in the S99 script they provided and you would have to replicate them in this script in the start) and stop) sections, most likely just before the startproc and killproc lines. Good luck -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org