One should, of course, keep in mind that "theDJBway" is just that. It is not the RedHat way. If you start to head down the DJB path, you'll loose a lot of help from a lot of people. Most people try to do RedHat systems the RedHat way, Debian systems the Debian way, etc.
Respectfully, Dave "doughnut" Fogarty -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /(D|\|\))([o0](u[g6]h)?nu[t+7]|[EMAIL PROTECTED](v|\\\/)([e3]|[i1!](d|\|\))))/i On 9 Dec 2004, Wayne Marshall wrote: >On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:01:13 -0800 >Kevin Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> All, >> >> I'm working on a project where I have to start up some commands >> that run for the life of the computer's up time. I would like >> these to start when the computer boots up, and stop after the >> computer shuts down(running Redhat). >> >> What I have to run are pretty simple commands: >> 1. multiple perl calls >> 2. multiple command tail -f log_file_name | logger local3.info >> > >Commands intended to run for the duration of uptime provide >services known as daemons. Best practice and easiest setup for >this is with daemontools. See: > > http://thedjbway.org/daemontools.html > >The package provides a consistent, platform independent interface >to all services you care to install: > > Start a service: > svc -u /service/myservice > > Stop a service: > svc -d /service/myservice > > Restart a service: > svc -t /service/myservice > > Hup a service: > svc -h /service/myservice > >Etc. Writing run scripts for daemontools is easy, platform >neutral, with no need to keep track of pids. The package also >provides very easy logging for any of your services, with the >multilog utility. > >Tutorials and many examples are provided at thedjbway.org. > >Based on the same principle, with a few more advanced features >and under active development, is Gerrit Pape's runit package: > > http://smarden.org/runit/index.html > >Note that although his package is designed to replace init, it >is not necessary to do so; you can just use the utilities as you >would with daemontools. > >Wayne > >-- >Wayne Marshall >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >_______________________________________________ >PDXLUG mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug > _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug