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Old 05-11-2010
Starting a service at startup.
Hi guys I want to start a service and a script SiteMonitor.sh at startup.

Quote:
Here is brief working of SiteMonitor.sh
(This script monitors the ip addresses of machines which are using http service of the host.
This script checks this after every 5 seconds therefore i have run it at background.
)
To start with i have modified /etc/rc.local file.

Here is the content of my /etc/rc.local file.

Code:
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
/etc/init.d/oc4j start
/usr/local/sbin/SiteMonitor.sh &
service httpd start

My problem is after i restart the machine only SiteMonitor.sh script get
executed but the command service httpd start doesnt .Therefore i have to manually login to the system and fire service httpd start to start apache.

I would also like to know whether the script SiteMonitor.sh is running or not?
How would i do that?
# 2  
Old 05-11-2010
Maybe inittab or appropriate entries/links etc. in /etc/init.d/rc.d is an alternative for you. What OS is this?
# 3  
Old 05-11-2010
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Originally Posted by zaxxon
Maybe inittab or appropriate entries/links etc. in /etc/init.d/rc.d is an alternative for you. What OS is this?
What is the disadvantage in putting the entries in /etc/rc.local?
My Linux distribution is
Code:
LSB Version:    :core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID: EnterpriseEnterpriseServer
Description:    Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Carthage)
Release:        5.2
Codename:       Carthage

# 4  
Old 05-11-2010
I see no disadvantage, just wanted to show possible alternatives. If your script does not come back after starting /usr/local/sbin/SiteMonitor.sh &
, you might try to add a nohup in front of it. To know if it is running or not, you will maybe want to have a separate mechanism to check, depending if you want to check it continously or only after that initial launch.
For only initial checking after the start, you could grep for a process and check it's $?, or rely on a lock/pid file (or both) you might have placed.
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