How to display message of service being loaded with rc3.d ??

[Daniel Simard]

Hi,
I have created a Script called S942sysperm.sh and I have placed it in rc3.d
The script executes no problem, it's just that I was wondering how to have a message displayed when it's executing. You know where it's going through all it's rc's (rc1.d rc2.d rc3.d) and you see OK, DONE, OK done, FAIL... Well, because my script is there you don't see anything just what's below

[ ] OK/DONE

If you guys need more explaination, please do not hesitate to let me know.
Thanks

[Marco Santerre]

Daniel,

actually, if you look in /sbin/init.d, you'll find a script called template that actually includes a start_msg and a stop_msg portion in the script. It is those message that you see at boot up and shut down of your server.

I would also recommend following HP standards in placing your script in /sbin/init.d and linking your script in the rc3.d, or other levels.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Look in /sbin/init.d and model your start/kill script on the file "template". HP-UX has a few extra conventions over "standard" UNIX - whatever that is.

In addition to the stand "start" and "stop" code sections, HP-UX adds "start_msg" and "stop_msg" sections and that is were your messages go. Pay attention to the return code values as descripbed in the template file for the "OK" and "FAIL" messages.

The other HP-UX convention is to have a config file in /etc/rc.config.d that is used to setup any needed variables. Typically a variable is set to 1 to allow the start/stop actions to occur and 0 to ignore.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Daniel,

Firts off you should place the script in /sbin/init.d & create a link from /sbin/rc3.d to the file in /sbin/init.d. You should also have a stop function in this script & link from /sbin/rc2.d to the same script.

Now to the question:
Normally you'll have a case statement in the script with four parts - EX:

case "$1" in
start_msg)
echo "Starting whatever daemon"
;;
stop_msg)
echo "Stopping whatever daemon"
;;
'start')
/command/to/start/the/daemon
;;
'stop')
/command/to/stop/the/daemon

Take a look at some of the scripts already in /sbin/init.d & you'll get a feel for this. It's not that difficult.

HTH,
Jeff

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi,

In addition, the /sbin/rc & /sbin/rc.utils script interface to the startup checklist on the console.

rgds, Robin

[Helen French]

You need to modify your script to be in the rc script template model. What you can do is make a copy of one of the scripts in /sbin/init.d and insert your startup commands under start_msg and stop commands under stop_msg. It's just the way rc executes it's scripts.

[Caesar_3 · Accepted solution]

Hello!

Add to your script in the case part:
start_msg)
echo "THE WANTED START MSG"
;;
stop_msg)
echo "THE WANTED STOP MSG"
;;

And you will see it will work, you can check
by running: S942sysperm.sh start_msg
you will see the start msg

The OK/DONE/FAIL are depend on the return value that return by your script.

Caesar