RE: Executing commands on startup and shutdown

From: Adam Bowns (adam-bowns_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 09/02/03

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    Thanks Hugh,

    I tried that and Its working as expected now.

    Regards,
    Adam Bowns

    On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 04:15, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
    > Hi Adam:
    >
    > That one got me too. Try this suggestion that Brian Ashe gave me
    > last year:
    >
    > >Try this... (It's just a WAG)
    > >
    > >Add a line...
    > >touch /var/lock/subsys/fapsrv
    > >to the "start" portion of your script.
    > >and of course it's counterpart...
    > >rm -f /var/lock/subsys/fapsrv
    > >to the "stop" portion.
    > >
    > >IIRC, RHL needs to see that the thing was started in order to execute the
    > >stop. It does this by checking for the existence of a file in
    > >/var/lock/subsys/ that matches the name of the script being called (after
    > >the K?? part).
    >
    > HTH
    >
    > Regards, Hugh
    >
    > --
    > Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com
    >
    > From: Adam Bowns Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 16:10
    > > To: redhat-list@redhat.com
    > > Subject: Executing commands on startup and shutdown
    > >
    > >
    > > Hello everyone,
    > >
    > > I have been trying to execute a command on startup, then a different
    > > command on shutdown. So far I have had success with executing the
    > > command on startup, but for some reason, via the exact same method I
    > > cannot execute the command on shutdown. Here's what im doing: -
    > >
    > > I have the a file names dns-client in my /etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory
    > > containing the following.
    > >
    > > ---------------------
    > > #!/bin/sh
    > >
    > >
    > > . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
    > >
    > >
    > > case "$1" in
    > > start)
    > > echo -n "Starting dns-client: "
    > > /usr/bin/dns-client-up
    > > echo
    > > ;;
    > > stop)
    > > echo -n "Shutting down ddclient: "
    > > /usr/bin/dns-client-down
    > > echo
    > > ;;
    > > *)
    > > echo "Usage: dns-client {start|stop}"
    > > exit 1
    > > esac
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > exit 0
    > > ---------------------
    > >
    > > then i have symlinks to this file in my rcX.d dirs, with S's where i
    > > want the start part of the case statement to execute, and K's where i
    > > want the stop part of the case statement to execute, here is an example
    > > of my rc5.d symlink
    > >
    > > S96dns-client -> ../init.d/dns-client
    > >
    > > The starting of the client is working fine so there is no need to bother
    > > with that, but this is what i have in my rc6.d directory
    > >
    > > K02dns-client -> ../init.d/dns-client
    > >
    > > and my rc0.d directory
    > >
    > > K02dns-client -> ../init.d/dns-client
    > >
    > > As far as I can tell this should execute the stop part of the case
    > > statement when the system enters runlevel 6 or 0... but its not, its as
    > > if nothing happens, no errors, nothing... the system just shuts down as
    > > normal. btw, all file permissions are the the same as the other files in
    > > those dirs.
    > >
    > > Have I got it all wrong or should this setup work ?
    > >
    > > Thanks in advance,
    > > Adam Bowns
    > > http://www.bowns.co.uk
    > >
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