Starting a service at bootup

[Anne Wilson]

I have installed popfile, which has a startup script in /etc/init.d.  At 
the moment when I boot up I can start popfile running with 'service 
popfile start'.

I want this to be an automatic startup but I've got a total blank on how 
to achieve this.  Could someone please prompt me?  Thanks

Anne

[Paul Howarth]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> I have installed popfile, which has a startup script in /etc/init.d.  At 
> the moment when I boot up I can start popfile running with 'service 
> popfile start'.
>
> I want this to be an automatic startup but I've got a total blank on how 
> to achieve this.  Could someone please prompt me?  Thanks

If the initscript has been written to support chkconfig, then:

# chkconfig popfile on

should do the trick.

Try:

# chkconfig popfile --list

to see the startup status for each runlevel.

Paul.

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 10:59, Paul Howarth wrote:
> If the initscript has been written to support chkconfig, then:
>
> # chkconfig popfile on
>
> should do the trick.
>
> Try:
>
> # chkconfig popfile --list
>
> to see the startup status for each runlevel.

Duh!  Clearly not enough caffeine this morning.  Thanks, Paul.

Anne

> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I have installed popfile, which has a startup script in /etc/init.d.  At
> > the moment when I boot up I can start popfile running with 'service
> > popfile start'.
> >
> > I want this to be an automatic startup but I've got a total blank on how
> > to achieve this.  Could someone please prompt me?  Thanks
>
> If the initscript has been written to support chkconfig, then:
>
> # chkconfig popfile on
>
> should do the trick.
>
> Try:
>
> # chkconfig popfile --list
>
> to see the startup status for each runlevel.

However, for this to work you need to add a special header to the file in
/etc/init.d specifying at what run levels and in what order you want the
script to run. Look at other files in this directory to see examples of
the header lines you need to add.

--
Aaron Konstam
Professor Emeritus, Computer Science
Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas
210-999-7484

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 11:40, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I have installed popfile, which has a startup script in
> > > /etc/init.d.  At the moment when I boot up I can start popfile
> > > running with 'service popfile start'.
> > >
> > > I want this to be an automatic startup but I've got a total blank
> > > on how to achieve this.  Could someone please prompt me?  Thanks
> >
> > If the initscript has been written to support chkconfig, then:
> >
> > # chkconfig popfile on
> >
> > should do the trick.
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > # chkconfig popfile --list
> >
> > to see the startup status for each runlevel.
>
> However, for this to work you need to add a special header to the
> file in /etc/init.d specifying at what run levels and in what order
> you want the script to run. Look at other files in this directory to
> see examples of the header lines you need to add.

OK - thanks, Aaron.

Anne

[Mikkel]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Try:
> >
> > # chkconfig popfile --list
> >
> > to see the startup status for each runlevel.
>
> However, for this to work you need to add a special header to the file in
> /etc/init.d specifying at what run levels and in what order you want the
> script to run. Look at other files in this directory to see examples of
> the header lines you need to add.

You can also read the sysvinitfiles in the initscripts docs for a
detailed description. The header is also covered in the chkconfig
man page.

Mikkel

[jdow]

From: "Anne Wilson"
> I want this to be an automatic startup but I've got a total blank on how 
> to achieve this.  Could someone please prompt me?  Thanks

chkconfig --add popfile
chkconfig popfile on

Probably only the latter is needed. You can check with:
chkconfig --list popfile

Several other solutions exist like ntsysv and so forth.
{^_^}

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 22:15, jdow wrote:
> From: "Anne Wilson"
> > I want this to be an automatic startup but I've got a total blank
> > on how to achieve this.  Could someone please prompt me?  Thanks
>
> chkconfig --add popfile
> chkconfig popfile on
>
> Probably only the latter is needed. You can check with:
> chkconfig --list popfile
>
> Several other solutions exist like ntsysv and so forth.
> {^_^}

Actually, that's pretty well what I did.
chkconfig --add popfile
chkconfig --levels 345 popfile on
chkconfig --list popfile

It just took a little prod to wake me up :-)

Anne