[gentoo-amd64] how to best run a script at boot

[gentoo-amd64] how to best run a script at boot

[Thierry de Coulon]

Hello,

I find myself again needing to run a few things on Winblow, so I reinstalled 
my "old" vmware (I have a workstation 5 license).
My problem is that while everything installed well, on the next start I had no 
network more. I've found out that running /usr/lib/vmware/net-services.sh 
creates the missing /dev/vmnet0, so now I'd like that script to be run every 
start.
On one list, someone suggested adding the script to /etc/rc.d and then 
running "rc-update add <script> default". I've done that during Gentoo 
install, but I was wondering if it was a good idea to add a "non system" 
script to default.

Thierry

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] how to best run a script at boot

[Michael Ballard]

Greetings,

I cannot speak for everyone but I cannot see the harm of having a "non
system" script executing before user login is possible, the script
being of the non-service nature.

You may want to look into local.start in the /etc/conf.d directory.
Local should run on start up by default and executes as the last
thing, (someone please correct me if I am wrong).  This might be
better a better solution then having a "service".

Good Day,
Mike B.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] how to best run a script at boot

[Daniel Iliev]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:15:30 +0200
Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@decoulon.ch> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I find myself again needing to run a few things on Winblow, so I
> reinstalled my "old" vmware (I have a workstation 5 license).
> My problem is that while everything installed well, on the next start
> I had no network more. I've found out that
> running /usr/lib/vmware/net-services.sh creates the
> missing /dev/vmnet0, so now I'd like that script to be run every
> start. On one list, someone suggested adding the script to /etc/rc.d
> and then running "rc-update add <script> default". I've done that
> during Gentoo install, but I was wondering if it was a good idea to
> add a "non system" script to default.
> 
> Thierry
> 

AFAIK the places intended for that purpose are "/etc/conf.d/local.start"
and "/etc/conf.d/local.stop" for starting and stopping custom programs
at boot and shut down time respectively. So, you may want to put that
line in "/etc/conf.d/local.start"



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[gentoo-amd64] Re: how to best run a script at boot

[Duncan]

Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> posted
20070715103658.3A50E9521D@mail.ilievnet.com, excerpted below, on  Sun, 15
Jul 2007 13:36:57 +0300:

> AFAIK the places intended for that purpose are "/etc/conf.d/local.start"
> and "/etc/conf.d/local.stop" for starting and stopping custom programs
> at boot and shut down time respectively. So, you may want to put that
> line in "/etc/conf.d/local.start"

I'll third the idea.  I've been using local.start to run a couple scripts 
of my own for some time.  It "just works" as they say.  Just add the 
"local" service to your default or whatever runlevel, and it'll start and 
stop anything you add to the conf.d local.st(art|op), without having to 
setup a whole fancy service.

The only caveat is that local is the last thing started and the first 
thing stopped, so if you need something started earlier or stopped later, 
you have to change things a bit.  I'd still recommend starting with the 
local service, however, and going from there, since it's tested, and 
future changes will be done with it in mind, so it's less likely to break 
with future updates than something you create entirely on your own.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: how to best run a script at boot

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Sunday, 15. July 2007, Duncan wrote:
> Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> posted
(...)
> > AFAIK the places intended for that purpose are "/etc/conf.d/local.start"
(...)
> I'll third the idea. 
(...)

Thanks all of you. I'll put it in local.start and see if it does what I'd like 
it to do :)

Thierry

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: how to best run a script at boot

[Nuitari]

> On Sunday, 15. July 2007, Duncan wrote:
>> Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> posted
> (...)
>>> AFAIK the places intended for that purpose are "/etc/conf.d/local.start"
> (...)
>> I'll third the idea.
> (...)
>
> Thanks all of you. I'll put it in local.start and see if it does what I'd like
> it to do :)
>
> Thierry

You know that there is an ebuild that gets you an init script for vmware 
5?
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] how to best run a script at boot

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 01:36:57PM +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> AFAIK the places intended for that purpose are "/etc/conf.d/local.start"
> and "/etc/conf.d/local.stop" for starting and stopping custom programs
> at boot and shut down time respectively. So, you may want to put that
> line in "/etc/conf.d/local.start"

As an example, I used this once upon a time to tune my ethernet
adapter's settings (with mii-tool), since autoneg wasn't working with
the switch it was on.

Dustin
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] how to best run a script at boot

[Peter Humphrey]

On Sunday 15 July 2007 10:15, Thierry de Coulon wrote:

> My problem is that while everything installed well, on the next start I had
> no network more. I've found out that running
> /usr/lib/vmware/net-services.sh creates the missing /dev/vmnet0, so now I'd
> like that script to be run every start.

I think I'd prefer to find out why that script isn't being run 
from /etc/init.d/vmware, or if it is, why it isn't setting up the network 
connection properly. By the way, what is "workstation 5"? And which kind of 
vmware are you using? Workstation? Server?

On this box, installing vmware-server pulls in vmware-modules, which builds 
two kernel modules: vmnet and vmmod. The former should be setting your 
network up.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] how to best run a script at boot

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Sunday, 15. July 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I think I'd prefer to find out why that script isn't being run
> from /etc/init.d/vmware, or if it is, why it isn't setting up the network
> connection properly. By the way, what is "workstation 5"? And which kind of
> vmware are you using? Workstation? Server?

Hum... "workstation 5" meant vmware, kind "workstation", version 5.5.3

> On this box, installing vmware-server pulls in vmware-modules, which builds
> two kernel modules: vmnet and vmmod. The former should be setting your
> network up.

Well, as I have a license to VMWare Workstation 5, I installed from the VMWare 
tarball, I didn't emerge (don't know if there is an ebuild for workstation, 
but I feared if there is, it might install version 6 and I have no license 
for that one).

Both modules were build, vmmon and vmnet are loaded (so says lsmod) 
but /dev/vmnet0 is not created. This happens if I 
run /usr/lib/vmare/net-services.sh, so I have to find a way to have it run 
autmaticaly. Adding  "/usr/lib/vmare/net-services.sh start" 
to /etc/conf.d/local.start does work.

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Regards,

Thierry

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] how to best run a script at boot

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday 16 July 2007 09:33, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> On Sunday, 15. July 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I think I'd prefer to find out why that script isn't being run
> > from /etc/init.d/vmware, or if it is, why it isn't setting up the network
> > connection properly. By the way, what is "workstation 5"? And which kind
> > of vmware are you using? Workstation? Server?
>
> Hum... "workstation 5" meant vmware, kind "workstation", version 5.5.3

Oh, I see what you mean. Sorry for being thick.

> I didn't emerge (don't know if there is an ebuild for workstation, but I
> feared if there is, it might install version 6 and I have no license for
> that one).

There is one:

$ eix vmware-workstation
* app-emulation/vmware-workstation
     Available versions:  4.5.3.19414-r7 5.5.4.44386 [M]~6.0.0.45731 
[M]~6.0.0.45731[1]
     Homepage:            
http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html
     Description:         Emulate a complete PC on your PC without the usual 
performance overhead of most emulators

* app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools
     Available versions:  *4.5.3-r1 *4.5.3-r1[1] ~5.5.1-r2 ~5.5.1-r2[1] ~5.5.2 
~5.5.2[1] ~5.5.3 ~5.5.3[1]
     Homepage:            http://www.vmware.com/
     Description:         Guest-os tools for VMware Workstation

...from which it seems you can install any of several versions. You might want 
to try emerging, say, 5.5.4.44386 and seeing if that works better.

> Both modules were build, vmmon and vmnet are loaded (so says lsmod)
> but /dev/vmnet0 is not created. This happens if I
> run /usr/lib/vmare/net-services.sh, so I have to find a way to have it run
> autmaticaly. Adding  "/usr/lib/vmare/net-services.sh start"
> to /etc/conf.d/local.start does work.

Hmm. Interesting. Not sure I can help with that, other than trying the portage 
version. I know that Mike Auty put a lot of work into getting the ebuilds to 
work, and he's a friendly chap, always ready to help.

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