Re: help adding start and shutdown script

Matthäus Banach wrote:
Hi James,

If you're using Gnome, you can start gnome-control-center and configure Gnome to start your ./start_net script at every logon. (As I use a localized version, I don't know what the icon inside the gnome-control-center is called, but it has to be something like "Sessions").

If you want Linux to look into the current directory for executables, just set the PATH variable. In bash you have to edit ~/.bash_profile.

If you add

PATH=$PATH:. # sets the PATH variable to the value it had
# before PLUS ".", the current directory
export PATH # exports the variable

to the file, it will do the trick.

Greetings from Germany,

Matthäus Banach
James A schrieb:

I have a customized driver for my wireless card running on Fedora Core 2.
To activate the card I have cd to a script directory and type "./start_net"
and to shut it down I type "./stop_net". How do I make them work without
having to type "./" before the command? I want to create a symlink to
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d so the wireless card starts automatically on boot up.


Hi James and Matthäus,


Matthäus approach has one disadvantage: A start script will not read profiles.

I would make a script /etc/init.d/mywireless like this:

-----------------------------------
CUT begin of script
----------------------------------
# chkconfig: - 99 1
# description: start/stop my wireless card
#
fullpath=thepathtothescriptdirectory
start() {
$fullpath/start_net
RETVAL=$?
return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
$fullpath/stop_net
RETVAL=$?
return $RETVAL
}
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart|reload)
stop
start
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
esac


exit $RETVAL



---------------------------------------
CUT end of script
---------------------------------------

To make the mywiresless script work:

chmod 711 /etc/init.d/mywireless
chckonfig --add mywireless
chkconfig mywireless on


Good luck,


Jan Gerrit Kootstra
.

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