Re: Confused about init scripts expectations

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

Jon Trauntvein wrote:

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

Jon Trauntvein wrote:

Greetings,

I am developing a daemon application to handle datalogger communications. I have developed the init script that is

included at the bottom of this mail based upon examples that
I found on the web. This script runs very
well from the command line. However, when I attempt to use
the gnome server configuration tool to start csilgrnet, the
tool locks up and has to be aborted. I have searched in vain
for guidelines for writing init scripts and have no idea what
the gui is looking for and not finding. Any assistance or
advise would be gratefully accepted.

Regards,

Jon Trauntvein

For a guide to writing them, look at the documentation for the
initscipts package. The file you are looking for is called
sysvinitfiles.

Mikkel

I found the above referenced file and have studied it in detail.  I
thank you.


My original problem remains, however.  That is, I can execute my script
on the command line to start and stop the daemon process.  If, however,
I attempt to start the daemon using the services configuration GUI
provided by gnome, the gui will lock up and I will have to kill it to
close it.  I have found, through experimentation, that, if the gui is in
this locked state, I can actually bring it out by running the script
from the command line to shut the daemon down.  The gui will then pop up
a dialogue indicating that the daemon has been started.

I am convinced that my script is finishing because I can see evidence
that the lock file is being generated by the call to touch.  Again,
there is absolutely no problem when this script is run from the command
line or when I am starting or stopping the run level.


Regards,

Jon Trauntvein

I didn't see anything wrong with it when I looked at it, but I do
not use the GUI, so I could be missing something. One thing you may
want to check on is the permissions and ownership of the script.

Mikkel

Justin Willmert