On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:22:21PM +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > echo '/usr/local/sbin/das_watchdog & >/dev/null' >>/etc/rc.local > > This assumes an initscript style that's not used on all linux systems.
i've attached a simple /etc/init.d script; on debian you can do: # cp das_watchdog /etc/init.d/ # update-rc.d das_watchdog defaults # invoke-rc.d das_watchdog start <sk>
#! /bin/sh # # Written by Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. # Modified for Debian GNU/Linux # by Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. # Modified for das_watchdog by <sk> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/das_watchdog NAME=das_watchdog DESC="Watchdog" test -x $DAEMON || exit 0 set -e case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --exec $DAEMON echo "." ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON echo "." ;; restart|reload|force-reload) echo -n "Restarting $DESC: $NAME... " start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --exec $DAEMON echo "done." ;; *) N=/etc/init.d/$NAME echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac exit 0