[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