One more dumb question related to this interesting topic: is there any more to getting a service set up than having a startup'shutdown script in /etc/init.d? That is, once you have that script there, will 'chkconfig' and 'service' start working? Or is there still more that must be done.
chkconfig depends on special format of comment section at the beginning of startup script. Basically, it usually looks something like this (example taken from sshd startup script):
# chkconfig: 2345 55 25 # description: OpenSSH server daemon # # processname: sshd # config: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key # config: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub # config: /etc/ssh/ssh_random_seed # config: /etc/ssh/sshd_config # pidfile: /var/run/sshd.pid
For chkconfig, the first line is most important. It tells in what run levels this script should be started (2, 3, 4, and 5 in this example) when you enable the service using "chkconfig service on". It also tells that links from rc?.d directories should be created as S55sshd and K25sshd (last two parameters). The rest, you can usually live without it.
-- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> Pollard Banknote Limited Systems Administrator 1499 Buffalo Place Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7
