[Fedora-livecd-list] chkconfig on doesn't work for init script in livecd

[msacks]

It was, but for some reason it still wasn't taking. I noticed a
warning message complaining about an %end directive being missing,
although it was just a deprecation warning. When I included this
directive at the end of my kickstart file, it seemed to get into line.

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Tom Atkinson <tom_atkinson at fsfe.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 11:25 -0800, msacks wrote:
>> I am trying to get a custom init script to start up at boot time on a
>> livecd I am spinning, but for some reason it isn't getting picked up.
>> Here is the recount of what I've done:
>>
>> I created a custom init script (/etc/init.d/custombinary) as follows
>> and put it in an rpm with my binary:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> #
>> # custombinary                Start up the custombinary utility
>> #
>> # chkconfig: 2345 55 25
>> # description: This service starts up a custombinary
>> #
>> # processname: custombinary
>>
>> ### BEGIN INIT INFO
>> # Provides: custombinary
>> # Required-Start: $local_fs $network $syslog
>> # Required-Stop: $local_fs $syslog
>> # Should-Start: $syslog
>> # Should-Stop: $network $syslog
>> # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
>> # Default-Stop: 0 1 6
>> # Short-Description: run custom binary
>> # Description:      Custom binary init script script to be used with liveCD
>> ### END INIT INFO
>>
>> # source function library
>> . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
>>
>>
>> start()
>> {
>>       echo "Starting custom binary"
>>       /opt/custom/bin/custombinary
>> }
>>
>> stop()
>> {
>>       echo "Shutdown"
>>         killall -9 custombinary
>> }
>>
>> case "$1" in
>>       start)
>>               start
>>               ;;
>>       stop)
>>               stop
>>               ;;
>>       *)
>>               echo "Usage: start | stop"
>>               exit 1
>>               ;;
>> esac
>> exit $?
>>
>> I package the rpm and init script, both of those get pushed out to the
>> liveCD with no problem.
>>
>> In my spin-kickstart file I have the following line:
>> %post --log=/tmp/my-post.log
>>
>> /sbin/chkconfig --add custombinary
>> /sbin/chkconfig --level 35 custombinary on
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> When I run livecd-creator, I don't get any errors.
>> When I run a chkconfig --list custombinary I get an error saying
>>
>> service custombinary supports chkconfig, but is not referenced in any
>> runlevel (run 'chkconfig --add custombinary'
>>
>>
>> What is super-confusing is that my init script works with chkconfig if I run
>> /sbin/chkconfig --add custombinary
>> /sbin/chkconfig --level 35 custombinary on
>>
>> once my livecd is booted up, but for some reason it isn't getting
>> turned on by default during the livecd creation.
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>
> Put it in the spec file's %post section instead of the kickstart.
>
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