On 1/19/07, Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina at wi.rr.com> wrote:

This is the script that I use on SLES9:

#! /bin/sh

BEGIN INIT INFO

Provides: hobbit

Required-Start: network

Required-Stop: network

Default-Start: 3 5

Default-Stop: 3

Description: Start the hobbit network monitor

END INIT INFO

case "$1" in start) echo "Starting Hobbit" su - hobbit -c "cd /home/hobbit/server; ./hobbit.sh start" ;; stop) echo "Stopping Hobbit" su - hobbit -c "cd /home/hobbit/server; ./hobbit.sh stop" ;; restart) $0 stop $0 start rc_status ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" exit 1 ;; esac

Don Munyak wrote:

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Hello,

I'd like to automate startup of hobbit at boot time.

If I make a link from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hobbit.sh to the startup script in /usr/local/...hobbit/server/hobbit.sh, how do I get it to start using the user account 'hobbit' ?

Is there another preferred technic ?

Rich,

Thanks for the reply. I think I follow the script. If I'm correct, when the script runs, something passes to the script, a stop, start, or restart command.

But how does this occur? Does simply putting this script in ../etc/rc.d/ make it automatic, or is it a combination of the former + adding something like "hobbit_enable='YES' " withing the rc.conf file ?

Thanks

Don