Re: Running something on start up and shutdown

2002-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 14:13, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >By the way, I'm not sure what the success thing was in the stop case > >below; I got errors when I tested it and removed it from my script. > > That's because t

Re: Running something on start up and shutdown

2002-06-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >By the way, I'm not sure what the success thing was in the stop case >below; I got errors when I tested it and removed it from my script. That's because the example was actually a redhat example. A standard init.d template c

Re: Running something on start up and shutdown

2002-06-14 Thread Joris
> What's the best way to run a script once on startup and again (well, a > related script) on shutdown? I want to run the scripts as a user rather > than root, which I believe is the standard init.d method. your script could read: #!/bin/sh # /etc/init.d/myscript # references /etc/init.d/mystart

Re: Running something on start up and shutdown

2002-06-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks, that's what I needed. After consulting the policy manual, I decided the right thing was for the script to execute on entry into level S and exit for levels 0 and 6. The incantation for the script MSGateway is update-rc.d MSGateway start 90 S . stop 15 0 6 . reflecting my judgement I

Re: Running something on start up and shutdown

2002-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 21:13, Ross Boylan wrote: > What's the best way to run a script once on startup and again (well, a > related script) on shutdown? I want to run the scripts as a user > rather than root, which I believe is the standard init.d method. Since you (presumably) know about init.d &

Running something on start up and shutdown

2002-06-13 Thread Ross Boylan
What's the best way to run a script once on startup and again (well, a related script) on shutdown? I want to run the scripts as a user rather than root, which I believe is the standard init.d method. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta