Bootexec

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

A question about /etc/rc.config.d/bootexec.
Should the START and STOP in this file be equal to 1 or to 0?
We presently have some servers set to START=1 and STOP=1 and some have START=1 and STOP=0.
Any help in clarifying this will be greatly appreciated.
Andy

[Patrick Wallek]

What version of the OS are you running?

I have checked on 10.20, 11.0 and 11i machines and I don't have that file. What process does it control?

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

Patrick,
We are running HP-UX 11.00

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

Also, this is the process that controls the stop and startup scripts. At least that is what I am lead to believe.

[Patrick Wallek]

Can you post of copy of that file? As I said, I don't have that on any of my machines.

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

Attached is a copy of the /etc/rc.config.d/bootexec

[Mark van Hassel]

Can you also post a copy of /sbin/init.d/bootexec

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

Attached is a copy of the
/sbin/init.d/bootexec

[Joseph C. Denman]

looks like it starts and stops your webserver and database.

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[Andrew Luis Arruza]

The problem is that it does not start up the database(Sybase) or the webserver(Apache). I realize that much is commented out in the attachment but nothing comes up.

[Joseph C. Denman]

Sorry, look like it use too. Now, it does not look like it does much of anything.

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[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi,

I suspect the problem is in the su - ess which is souring ess's .profile. You probably have commands like stty, tabs in the .profile.

1) Examine your ESSLOG in /var/adm for clues.
2) Try to execute the start command as user ess from the shell.
3) If 2) works then build a wrapper shell which sets and export needed vars and then calls your start/stop command. Your init.d script woulf then call this wrapper script
su ess mywrapper.sh start|stop

[Patrick Wallek]

You say nothing gets started when this runs. Does anything show up /etc/rc.log for this script? Any errors, messages, etc? This is a homegrown script that someone did. It is not a standard HP-UX startup script. If you post the section for this from the /etc/rc.log we will be able to tell a bit more.

If apache, Maestro, adsm and MF Cobol do not start, are they installed on this machine? Are they supposed to be running?

This looks like a script that is supposed to be modified for each system based on the software that is installed on each particular system.

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

Attached is the /etc/rc.log from last reboot.

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

Apache, MF Cobol, ADSM and Maestro are all installed on this server. I have had to manually restart them along with Sybase.

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

I noticed that I did not have a link in the /sbin/init.d to the bootexec. That is the following was missing:
ln /sbin/init.d/bootexec S910bootexec

[Joseph C. Denman · Accepted solution]

OK, here is what I would do.

Modify the /sbin/init.d/bootexec file. Uncomment out needed commands for the start and stop case as well as add additional if needed.

Modify /etc/rc.config.d/bootexec file. Set START=1.

Create link such as K910bootexec and S910bootexec in the /etc/rc2.d directory.

ln -s /sbin/init.d/bootexec /etc/rc2.d/S910bootexec
ln -s /sbin/init.d/bootexec /etc/rc2.d/K910bootexec

Then I would test.

cd /etc/rc2.d
./K910bootexec stop
./S910bootexec start

Hope this helps

...jcd...