Proper Way of Adding rc Startup Scripts on HPUX

[Alzhy]

I add in the script in /sbin/init.d .. make it executable and create K or S scripts in /sbin/rc?.d . However, during startup and shutdown i get Script Usage syntax Message on the console, ie:

Usage: /sbin/rc3.d/S99bootalert { start | stop } .................... OK

However, script runs correctly... My rc scripts does not echo out anything..

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Hi,

This line must come from the "start" or "*" option in the "case" statement of your rc start script.

Hai

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Here is my best guess:

HP-UX adds 2 other non-standard command line options that most UNIX'es don't have. They are "start_msg" and "stop_msg". The command with these arguments are sent before the more traditional "start" and "stop" commands are executed. I suspect that your script does not handle these arguments correctly. Look at /sbin/init.d/template and model your script upon it.

[Michael Tully]

Did you use the script template that is provided? See /sbin/init.d/template
It has the case statements already done for you.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Nelson,

When the system boots up, rc will try to run the scripts from /sbin/init.d directory. The order and the run levels are decided based on the links created in /sbin/rc*.d directory. The system runs these scripts with "start_msg and start" arguments during the startup and "stop_msg and stop" arguments during the shutdown. So, you will need to have these 'case' statements in your script. You are basically missing start_msg and stop_msg cases to display the status messages on the screen.

Look at /sbin/init.d/template file for an example. It is a good idea to create a control file under /etc/rc.config.d directory. For ex., look at /sbin/init.d/sendmail script and see how it works.

-Sri

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

you should have one script in /sbin/init.d
with a start and a stop section.
What you have in /sbin/rc?.d
are just logical links. S scripts are called S99bootalert start and because it is link, it calles your script in init.d

Michael

[Alzhy]

Silly me.. I should have noticed early in the various samples within /sbin/init.d ...

Thanks y'all... and for pinting me to the template.