Gentlemen, Thank you for the responses. I should have mentioned that most of the machines are solaris and a few are AIX

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 11:52 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] auto-restart clients

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 11:41:15AM -0400, kevin hanrahan wrote:

For reasons which I cannot understand, our unix admins feel the need to reboot their machines constantly. I don't think there is an uptime exceeding 2 weeks!! However when that happens, the BB client stops reporting and I eventually get the purple alerts from Hobbit. Can someone tell me how to get the clients to auto-restart? Also, I am not a coder so please don't tell me to "write a script to make them start at reboot" because that is obvious....i just don't know how. Thank you for all input on this.

Normally a script like this would suffice:

#!/bin/sh

case "$1" in "start") su -c "/usr/local/bb/bbc/runbb.sh start" bb ;;

"stop") su -c "/usr/local/bb/bbc/runbb.sh stop" bb ;; esac

exit 0

Now the trick is to get that script run automatically when the system starts up. How you do that depends on the Unix flavour - often the script is installed in /etc/init.d/bigbrother, and then you need to create links from /etc/rc2.d/S99bigbrother -> /etc/init.d/bigbrother

Regards, Henrik

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