new init.d startup script

[Jeff Hoevenaar]

Is there any good docs to explain the format of the RedHat Linux startup scripts in /etc/init.d. I want to create a customized script for my application. Or is there a template script on the syste, somewhere that I can use.

Thanks.

[Denver Osborn]

man init.d

The manual page should give you enough info to build your stratup script. If there's a template for RH the init.d man page should point you to it. I'm more familiar w/ SuSE and their template it /etc/init.d/skeleton... You should check out the man page.

If you can't find the template on RH, copy en existing script and make your changes. The script will go in /etc/init.d w/ symbolic links in /etc/init.d/rc?.d/K???script or S???script. Where rc?.d is the runlevel to start/stop and K???script is for the shutdown, S??? is run at startup. Example

/etc/init.d/myscript

ln -s /etc/init.d/myscript /etc/init.d/rc3.d/S600myscript

ln -s /etc/init.d/myscript /etc/init.d/rc2.d/K600myscript


"myscript" will startup in runlevel 3... man page should cover it all.

hope this helps,
-denver

[Eric van Dijken · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This webpage below will tell you all you need. I think there used to be a RPM, which had a bare bone application startup/shutdown script. But the name is lost to me as thats a long time ago (+3 years ago)

http://www.sensi.org/~alec/unix/redhat/sysvinit.html

Another usefull manualpage is: "man chkconfig"

But if that all fails, try to find one that almost has what you need. And copy and change that one to your needs.

[Magnus Andersen]

On RH Linux you can create a custom script and place it in /etc/rc.d/init.d

Place the chkconfig and description lines lines at the top of the script. See code below.

As root run chkconfig --add scriptname

To verify run chkconfig --list scriptname

That should show you what runlevels the script will start/stop.

You can also utilize the service command once this is done.

service scriptname start/stop/status


#!/bin/bash
################################################################
# Oracle startup/shutdown script
# chkconfig: 2345 99 10
# description: starts and stops the Oracle databases

[Ross Minkov]

Check this doc too --

http://www-eleves-isia.cma.fr/Doc/initscripts-7.06/sysvinitfiles