[Planetlab-users] Restarting a program after reboot

[Alex Sherman]

Hi

I want to make sure that my program starts up when a planetlab machine
is rebooted. A while back I found a hint somewhere in the FAQ
that recommended to modify the /etc/rc.vinit to have crond started
at boot time. (And that runs a command in my crontab)

Below is the pasted script suggested in the FAQ. However, I find that
on some machines crond is not running. I am not sure whether this is
a problem with the script or crond starts up and then dies for some
unexplained reason.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

-Alex

my /etc/rc.vinit:

#!/bin/sh

case "$1" in
    'start')
        /etc/init.d/crond start
        ;;
    'stop')
        /etc/init.d/crond stop
        ;;
    'restart')
        /etc/init.d/crond restart
        ;;
    *)
        echo rc.vinit was called with $1 as an argument
        ;;
esac

/usr/bin/logger rc.vinit completed $1 at `date`