[ILUG] Creating startup script

[Ciaran Johnston]

Conor Daly said:
> Best option would be to have a look at the startup scripts already in
> /etc/init.d (on linux systems at least, maybe someplace else on solaris).

They're there, alright, but they don't all play nicely. Some of them are
downright ugly. And on Solaris 10, the "rc*" stuff is gone (almost), to be
replaced by SMF. I'll assume the OP is using a Solaris version other than
10.

>
> Basically the startup script looks for the words 'start' and 'stop' as the
> first arg and do the daemon start or stop accordingly.  The script will
> usually create a file in /var/run/<script-name> to indicate that the
> daemon is running (some will put the daemon's pid in that file).  The
> 'stop' argument causes the daemon to be halted by whatever means works for
> that particular daemon.  For some if they are invoked with a stop switch
> will shut down, for others it's a matter of get pid from file and then do
> a 'kill <pid>'.

The "/etc/init.d/syslog" start script is a simple example of this on
Solaris 9, although it stores the PID in /var/run/syslog.pid and then uses
a symlink of that in /etc/syslog.pid - the behaviour is the same, though.

When you have a script in /etc/init.d/ with your start and stop cases
defined you should link it into the relevant rc directory (rc2.d in your
case) to start it and also any runlevels where you would like to stop it.

Bear in mind that the commands you are using below are "csh" syntax,
whereas most of the other start scripts you will see will be in bourne
shell ("sh", "ksh" or (rarely, on Solaris) "bash") syntax. You will need
to translate accordingly.

/Ciaran.

>
> Conor
>
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:27:03AM +0530 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Walter Faleiro thought:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to fix a startup script in /etc/rc2.d for a solaris sytem for a
>> license server to be named say S99stabie.
>>
>> Following are the commands I use manually to start the daemon
>>
>> setenv SS_LICENSE_FILE /system/pkg/stabie/ssoft.lic
>> setenv SS_HOME /system/pkg/stabie/latest/sol64/ssoft
>>
>> set path=(/system/pkg/stabie/latest/sol64/ssoft/bin $path)
>>
>>
>>
>> % cd /tmp
>> % /system/pkg/stabie/latest/sol32/ssoft/bin/lsrv  &
>>
>> Can Someone guilde me with the building of statup scripts so the above
>> are
>> executed by a script when the system boots up.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Walter
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