[gentoo-user] daemon start up problem

[gentoo-user] daemon start up problem

[K. Mike Bradley]

Hello,
I am running latest Gentoo.
I want to start my app as a daemon.
This app has a script to do so.

webservice.sh

I copied this file to /etc/init.d/

I made a link:

/etc/runlevels/default/webctrl ---> /etc/init.d/webservice.sh

If I start manually it's ok:

/etc/init.d/webservice.sh start

But when I re-boot I get:


*WARNING:   /etc/init.d/webctrl missing ... Skipping            [ok] 

 

If I run:

nano /etc/runlevels/default/webctrl

I get the webservice.sh that the link points to.

Please help.


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Re: [gentoo-user] daemon start up problem

[Patrick Börjesson]

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On 2006-02-08 10:08, K. Mike Bradley uttered these thoughts:
> Hello,
> I am running latest Gentoo.
> I want to start my app as a daemon.
> This app has a script to do so.
> 
> webservice.sh
> 
> I copied this file to /etc/init.d/
> 
> I made a link:
> 
> /etc/runlevels/default/webctrl ---> /etc/init.d/webservice.sh
> 
> If I start manually it's ok:
> 
> /etc/init.d/webservice.sh start
> 
> But when I re-boot I get:
> 
> 
> *WARNING:   /etc/init.d/webctrl missing ... Skipping            [ok] 

I would imagine that the init system of Gentoo expects the links in
/etc/runlevels/... to have the same name as the script they link to.

So to get proper behaviour: 
ln -sf /etc/init.d/webservice.sh /etc/runlevels/default/webservice.sh
(or "rc-update add webservice.sh default")

Then remove /etc/runlevels/default/webctrl
 
That should fix it...

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RE: [gentoo-user] daemon start up problem

[K. Mike Bradley]

I tried rc-update originally but got an error message which is why I
manually made the link.

I removed the webctrl link and rc-update as you detailed and it worked this
time, but ...

When I boot I get:

Usage: /sbin/rc { start | stop}

And the service is not running.

Could this be a script error in the webservice.sh provided by the app
vendor?

Thanks for all your help.



 

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From: Patrick Börjesson [mailto:psycho@rift.ath.cx] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 10:37 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] daemon start up problem

On 2006-02-08 10:08, K. Mike Bradley uttered these thoughts:
> Hello,
> I am running latest Gentoo.
> I want to start my app as a daemon.
> This app has a script to do so.
> 
> webservice.sh
> 
> I copied this file to /etc/init.d/
> 
> I made a link:
> 
> /etc/runlevels/default/webctrl ---> /etc/init.d/webservice.sh
> 
> If I start manually it's ok:
> 
> /etc/init.d/webservice.sh start
> 
> But when I re-boot I get:
> 
> 
> *WARNING:   /etc/init.d/webctrl missing ... Skipping            [ok] 

I would imagine that the init system of Gentoo expects the links in
/etc/runlevels/... to have the same name as the script they link to.

So to get proper behaviour: 
ln -sf /etc/init.d/webservice.sh /etc/runlevels/default/webservice.sh
(or "rc-update add webservice.sh default")

Then remove /etc/runlevels/default/webctrl
 
That should fix it...

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[gentoo-user] Re: daemon start up problem

[Harry Putnam]

"K. Mike Bradley" <kmb@mikienet.com> writes:

> If I start manually it's ok:
>
> /etc/init.d/webservice.sh start
>
> But when I re-boot I get:
>
>
> *WARNING:   /etc/init.d/webctrl missing ... Skipping            [ok] 
>

This kind of side steps the issue but if you'd rather just have it
working and not have to learn all about runlevels etc.... you could
just put it in /etc/conf.d/local.start.

That gets called from /etc/init.d/local  as the last thing started.

If you do use that method remember to put a `&' after the script call
or you might hang up the boot process waiting for a return.

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