On Monday 07 December 2009 12:10:50 pm John R Pierce wrote: > Roland Roland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've just finished installing Atlassian's bamboo > > <http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo/> > > it comes with two ways to start it up one through a bash shell script > > bamboo.sh > > and another through java script (this one is better as it has the > > ability to start up the service if it got shutdown for any reason) > > > > so I'm wondering how can I set this service to start on boot.. > > I know how to set a script on login in my profile though not on boot.. > > > > any suggestion? > > I've looked around about none interactive shells and so on.. so if I > > did a symbolic link from bamboo.sh script to /etc/init.d would that work? > > what about variables inside the script would they b read ? > > > > obviously a newbie here so appreciate any detailed explanation if > > possible about interactive/ none interactive shells and of course if > > theres an advice about how to solve this issue.. > > > > PS: trying to educate myself about linux along the way so any > > explanation would be greatly appreciated... > > you need to write a script for /etc/init.d that takes an argument > "stop", "start", and optionally "restart" and/or "reload". > > this script can either call that bamboo.sh script or just contain a copy > of it as the 'start' part (I'd go with the latter if its really simple) > > do remember, you have to set up any environment this process may needmay > need. DO NOT ASSUME ANY LOGIN ENVIRONMENT. > > Take a look at /etc/init.d/smartd as an example init script, as this is > a fairly simple one. > > your script should have a comment on top something like... > > #!/bin/sh > # > # bamboo Starts the bamboo service > # > # chkconfig: 345 05 95 > # description: blahblah blahdablah blah > # .... > > the important line there is chkconfig: whihc in this case says, by > default you want this service run at run levels 3,4,5, and it is to be > started at priority 05 and stopped at priority 95 > (lower means sooner ni the order of things) > > after putting that script in /etc/init.d, then... > > service bamboo {start|stop} > > will manuallly start/stop this service, and > > chkconfig bamboo on > > and that will configure it to run at startup per those chkconfig options. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Good documentation for this lives in the following directory: /usr/share/doc/initscripts-<VERSION>/sysconfig.txt The <VERSION> should be replaced with the version string of the initscripts rpm found by running 'rpm -q initscripts --format %{VERSION} && echo' at the terminal. -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. IT Operations Minerva Networks, Inc. Cell: (650) 704-6633 Phone: (408) 240-1239 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos