[H-GEN] starting servers

[Sandra Milne]

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At 10:31 31/05/2002 +1000, you wrote:
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>Hi all
>
>I have been toying with debian over the past weeks (quite impressive too), 
>however, I am needing to automatically start an enCore server on the 
>machine at boot.  Currently, I manually start the server from a directory 
>called /usr/local/moo with the command ./restart enCore.  In the past I 
>have used a redhat server and placed the relevant commands within 
>/etc/rc.d/rc.local.  Any help in this matter would be appreciated as we 
>are currently having a few power problems which brings the server down for 
>a period of time.

the way i do it is like this.
in /etc/init.d/ there is a file called skeleton.
cp skeleton mydaemon
then use your favourite editor to open the file. change the first few lines 
of code (prolly about 5 or 6 lines into the file) to be what you want it to be.
then u can /etc/init.d/mydaemon start [or stop or restart]
if you want it to start automatically on boot, put a symlink in /etc/rc2.d 
[i think, been a while since i did this] but make sure the symlink points 
to the full path of the mydaemon file, ie /etc/init.d/mydaemon

maybe i just like to do things the hard way, but i find this is a nice 
learning experience and you get full control over what starts when and 
where from.

Sandra.

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