Hey Sebastian,
I've attached my hacked together init.d script for starting the venue server on
a RHEL box.
Note: the daemonAG() function in the script was stolen the daemon() function in
/etc/init.d/functions. It is verbatim except for the actual line that launches
the program, which I
changed to this:
su -s /bin/bash - $user -c "$* &" >/dev/null 2>&1
which launches the VenueServer process in a shell of a defined user.
As you'll see in the start() function in the script, I run under a user called
'ag' - you can change
that to whatever you need.
This script was kinda just thrown together with bits from other init scripts,
so I'm sure it could
be pared down a bit - but it has worked for me for a couple of years now.
Todd
Sebastian Tabarce wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Has any of you guys tried to automatically start at boot the Venue
> Server on Fedora Core 4 (or any other OS)?
> I've tried, but with no success.
> First I added this line to rc.local:
> /usr/bin/VenueServer.py
> but Fedora was stuck on start-up after starting the server.
> After modifying it to:
> /usr/bin/VenueServer.py &
> to send the process in background, Fedora starts ok, the server starts
> and I can see it in the process list, but any client trying to connect
> to it from the same machine or any other just hangs for ever.
> What am I doing wrong? Suggestions are welcomed, I'm familliar with
> linux but not a linux expert.....
> Thanks!
> Sebastian
>
#!/bin/sh
#
# venueServer Takes care of starting and stopping the
# VenueServer
#
# chkconfig: - 50 50
# description: AG VenueServer
# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions
# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
[ -x /usr/bin/VenueServer.py ] || exit
# A function to start a program.
daemonAG() {
# Test syntax.
local gotbase= force=
local base= user= nice= bg= pid=
nicelevel=0
while [ "$1" != "${1##[-+]}" ]; do
case $1 in
'') echo $"$0: Usage: daemonAG [+/-nicelevel] {program}"
return 1;;
--check)
base=$2
gotbase="yes"
shift 2
;;
--check=?*)
base=${1#--check=}
gotbase="yes"
shift
;;
--user)
user=$2
shift 2
;;
--user=?*)
user=${1#--user=}
shift
;;
--force)
force="force"
shift
;;
[-+][0-9]*)
nice="nice -n $1"
shift
;;
*) echo $"$0: Usage: daemonAG [+/-nicelevel] {program}"
return 1;;
esac
done
# Save basename.
[ -z "$gotbase" ] && base=${1##*/}
# make sure it doesn't core dump anywhere; while this could mask
# problems with the daemon, it also closes some security problems
ulimit -S -c 0 >/dev/null 2>&1
# if they set NICELEVEL in /etc/sysconfig/foo, honor it
[ -n "$NICELEVEL" ] && nice="nice -n $NICELEVEL"
# Echo daemon
[ "${BOOTUP:-}" = "verbose" -a -z "$LSB" ] && echo -n " $base"
su -s /bin/bash - $user -c "$* &" >/dev/null 2>&1
[ "$?" -eq 0 ] && success $"$base startup" || failure $"$base startup"
}
RETVAL=0
prog="VenueServer"
start() {
# Start daemons.
echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
daemonAG --user ag VenueServer.py
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/agVenueServer
return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
# Stop daemons.
echo -n $"Shutting down $prog: "
killproc VenueServer.py
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/agVenueServer
return $RETVAL
}
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
status agVenueServer
RETVAL=$?
;;
restart|reload)
stop
start
RETVAL=$?
;;
condrestart)
if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/agVenueServer ]; then
stop
start
RETVAL=$?
fi
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status}"
exit 1
esac
exit $RETVAL
