Re: [Motion-user] Why no command line argument to start/stop/reload motion?

[A. <foo...@gm...>]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Kevin Brewster <bre...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to all this so my apologies if this is a dumb question..
>

Hi Kevin,

> Why is there no simple way to stop/start/reload motion from the command
> line besides sending kill signals?
>
> It would be nice if it was like apache or mysql where you can type
> "/etc/init.d/apache start|stop|restart"
>

Well, /etc/init.d/apache is in fact a simple shell script on most
linux distros. This script does all the necessary things needed to
start, stop and restart the service it takes care of.

Examples of such a script can be found in your motion distribution,
under the name of motion.init-Debian - if you use Debian, that is. If
not, you can try to look in the documentation of your distribution how
to build it.

I have not used the Debian script, but I think that copying it to your
/etc/init.d/ directory, then doing a chmod 755 on it should be
sufficient.

It's late here, so I may be a little off :) Can someone using motion
on Debian please confirm and/or correct the information provided here
?


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