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

["wildpossumboy" <>]

Hi J.

Have you checked to see if anything related to your program/process is
captured in the syslog?

Failing that, why not use some log statements to see in what area the
problem maybe appearing.

Hope this assists.
Cheers. Grahame


--- In  "jklich" <> wrote:
>
> 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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