Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:31:26 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> Cc: Langa Kentane <LangaK@discoveryhealth.co.za>, "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: starting a daemon automatically at startup. Message-ID: <20010112203126.A986@buffy.raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <01011121380900.00305@web1.tninet.se>; from mark.rowlands@minmail.net on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:38:09PM %2B0100 References: <A69BC9CA4B39D411BF2200105A45B45B075B8C03@dhexchange.discoveryhealth.co.za> <01011121380900.00305@web1.tninet.se>
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:38:09PM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote:
> 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
>
Just a little correction :)
The user may forget to give an argument, so $1 may be
non-existant and you will get a bitch from the shell..
so when in doubt .. quote $ vars..
Cliff
> 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 ;-)
Hey, no-one should get flamed for passing on what they
know :) .. no worries, the *slightest* mistake here will
get spotted .. roflmao..
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