Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:38:09 +0100 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: Langa Kentane <LangaK@discoveryhealth.co.za>, "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: starting a daemon automatically at startup. Message-ID: <01011121380900.00305@web1.tninet.se> In-Reply-To: <A69BC9CA4B39D411BF2200105A45B45B075B8C03@dhexchange.discoveryhealth.co.za> References: <A69BC9CA4B39D411BF2200105A45B45B075B8C03@dhexchange.discoveryhealth.co.za>
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On Thursday 11 January 2001 08:18, Langa Kentane wrote:
> Greetings.
> I have just install ntop on a server running FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE. Now I
> need to start this with the following flags at boot time: '-dw 3000'
>
> How do I go about doing this?
> Thanks in advance.
>
I believe the official way...and I am putting this in the hope that some one
authoritative will correct this as appropriate because I have seen several
opinions offered, is to provide a script in rc.d which will take a "start"
and a "stop" option
in /usr/local/etc/rc.d create a shell script looking something like this
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
start)
if [ -x /usr/local/etc/myapp/start ]; then
/usr/local/etc/myapp/start >/dev/null
echo -n ' myapp'
fi
;;
stop)
if [ -x /usr/local/etc/myapp/stop ]; then
/usr/local/etc/myapp/stop >/dev/null
echo -n ' myapp'
fi
;;
*)
echo "usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}" >&2
exit 64
;;
esac
create some directory /usr/local/etc/myapp
with two commands stop and start with whatever is appropriate to stop and
start the applications in an orderly fashion. Clearly if your application
has existing commands these can be utilised from the appropriate directory
sample stop script
#!/bin/sh
echo Stopping myapp in /usr/local/myapp
kill `cat /var/log/myapp.pid`
now let the flames roll ;-)
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