[ts-7000] start-stop-deamon works fine-- but process actually DOESN'T start automatical...

["jklich" <>]

Hi everyone,

I'm using a TS-7800.  I wrote a C program that I would like to run in 
the background automatically on startup.  The binary, named pollster, 
is located in /usr/sbin:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 11635 Jan 31 16:01 /usr/sbin/pollster*

I wrote a daemon script called pollster and placed in in /etc/init.d, 
here is the contents:

:init.d# cat pollster
#! /bin/sh

set -e

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC="pollster daemon"
NAME=pollster
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/$NAME
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

d_start() {
        start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --background --make-
pidfile --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
}

d_stop() {
        start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --pidfile $PIDFILE \
                --name $NAME
}

d_reload() {
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
                --name $NAME --signal 1
}

case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
        d_start
        echo "."
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
        d_stop
        echo "."
        ;;
  *)
        # echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-
reload}" >&2
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" 
>&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0

----------

I can start and stop the deamon just fine from the command line by 
using:

# /etc/init.d/pollster start
OR
# /etc/init.d/pollster stop

When I issue a "ps -A" command, I see the process running, so I know 
everything up to here works just fine:

 1116 ?        00:00:00 pollster


So then I issued the folowing command for the various run-levels:

# update-rc pollster start 99 2 3 4 5 . stop 0 1 6 .

I see my pollster program start without any errors at startup, but 
when I login and check to see if it is running, it is not.  I run 
"ps -A" and it is nowhere to be found.  BUT, if I start it from the 
command line-- no problem.  Anyone know what what could be wrong???

J


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