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[Bobs-devel] cmdloop as a service

[Joe Z. <jz...@co...>]

I'm playing around with making 'cmdloop' start as a service. There are 
problems on some systems they way cmdloop is invoked from check_loop. 
Instead of putting check_loop in /etc/crontab I'd create a file in 
/etc/init.d/ to handle the start/stop/status of cmdloop. This would 
allow cmdloop to be controlled with 'chkconfig', 'service' and 'ntsysv'.

Since I only have access to redhat systems I don't know what is standard 
for services on MAC OS X, FreeBSD, etc.

Do these systems have:
o   The chkconfig command?
o   The 'service' command?
o   The file /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions?
o   The /var/run directory?

If any of you with non-redhat systems could answer these questions I'd 
greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Joe Zacky

Re: [Bobs-devel] cmdloop as a service

[Arnaud C. <arn...@ar...>]

As far as Debian is concerned,
* there is no chkconfig command, instead it's "update-rc.d"
* no service command
* the init files are located in /etc/init.d/
* the /var/run exists

But my system works on Redhat so that's cool for me :)

bye.
Arnaud.

Joe Zacky a écrit :

> I'm playing around with making 'cmdloop' start as a service. There are 
> problems on some systems they way cmdloop is invoked from check_loop. 
> Instead of putting check_loop in /etc/crontab I'd create a file in 
> /etc/init.d/ to handle the start/stop/status of cmdloop. This would 
> allow cmdloop to be controlled with 'chkconfig', 'service' and 'ntsysv'.
>
> Since I only have access to redhat systems I don't know what is 
> standard for services on MAC OS X, FreeBSD, etc.
>
> Do these systems have:
> o   The chkconfig command?
> o   The 'service' command?
> o   The file /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions?
> o   The /var/run directory?
>
> If any of you with non-redhat systems could answer these questions I'd 
> greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe Zacky
>
>
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Re: [Bobs-devel] cmdloop as a service

[Jochen M. <j.m...@om...>]

Am Fr, 2004-03-19 um 10.19 schrieb Arnaud CONCHON:
> As far as Debian is concerned,
> * there is no chkconfig command, instead it's "update-rc.d"
> * no service command
> * the init files are located in /etc/init.d/
> * the /var/run exists
> 
> But my system works on Redhat so that's cool for me :)
> 
Yes, but it should also work on Debian, shouldn't it ?

Cheers 

Jochen

Re: [Bobs-devel] cmdloop as a service

[Joe Z. <jz...@co...>]

Jochen Metzger wrote:

>Am Fr, 2004-03-19 um 10.19 schrieb Arnaud CONCHON:
>  
>
>>As far as Debian is concerned,
>>* there is no chkconfig command, instead it's "update-rc.d"
>>* no service command
>>* the init files are located in /etc/init.d/
>>* the /var/run exists
>>
>>But my system works on Redhat so that's cool for me :)
>>    
>>
Thank you Arnaud. That's very useful.

>>    
>>
>Yes, but it should also work on Debian, shouldn't it ?
>
>Cheers 
>
>Jochen
>  
>
I need to make sure it works on as many systems as possible. So I'll 
avoid the things that are not common to all systems.