Christofer C. Bell wrote:
On 2/22/06, Bob Hartung <rwhart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to modify a SuSE init script to start Tomcat 5.5. It uses
checkproc which I do not find on the FC4 install. What FC4 program
provides similiar utility?
I don't know what checkproc does, but I'm assuming it checks to see if
a service is already running. That's provided by the daemon function
in /etc/init.d/functions which is normally sourced by every script in
/etc/init.d.
Note that the following is at the top of every Fedora supplied init script:
# source function library
. /etc/init.d/functions
If you refer to that script, you'll see the following is part of the
daemon() shell function:
# See if it's already running. Look *only* at the pid file.
if [ -f /var/run/${base}.pid ]; then
local line p
read line < /var/run/${base}.pid
for p in $line ; do
[ -z "${p//[0-9]/}" -a -d "/proc/$p" ] && pid="$pid $p"
done
fi
Anyway, like I said, I'm not sure what checkproc does, but if there's
anything you need to know about Fedora specific enhancements to the
system initialization process, you're likely to find it in
/etc/init.d/function.
Good luck!
--
Chris
"I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford. I
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In Fedora, I normally use the following to check the status of a "service"
/sbin/service nameofservice status
where nameofservice must be one of the names listed of you do
ls /etc/rc.d/init.d
For example,
/sbin/service ntpd status
gives:
ntpd (pid 2598) is running...
Further explanation: the "programs" in /etc/rc.d/init.d (typically
bash scripts) are run by /sbin/service with the indicated argument,
e.g. "status". Generally, the programs/scripts have in them
whatever code is necessary to determine the status for a particular
service. These scripts are installed by the rpm. Of course, if
you create a service from a program in a tarball or something, you
would need to create the appropriate program/script in init.d to
make this work.
note that
/sbin/service ntpd stop
/sbin/service nptd start
/sbin/service ntpd restart
are also supported.
If you want programs to start automatically, you can use /sbin/chkconfig
(man chkconfig) for more information. This adjusts the entries in
/etc/rc.d/rc.5 (or /etc/rc.d/rc.3 if you boot to command mode). I
admit that I use the GUI (somewhere under system settings and/or services)
rather than figure out the command syntax of chkconfig.
