[Planetlab-users] Restarting a program after reboot

[Steve Muir]

Neil,

thanks for providing that.  the /etc/ssh/fetch_keys is no longer with us,
it's been replaced with /usr/local/planetlab/bin/PlanetLabKeys.sh.

cheers,

steve



On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Neil Spring wrote:

> Alex,
>
> http://lists.planet-lab.org/pipermail/users/2004-November/000866.html
>
> Below is my current rc.vinit.  It works reasonably well.  You obviously don't 
> want to start scriptroute, but the rest may be fine.
>
> -neil
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # $1 is the first arg, defined to be "start" or "stop"
>
> # part of the "stock" rc.vinit, at least temporarily...
> test -e /etc/ssh/fetch_keys && /bin/sh /etc/ssh/fetch_keys
>
> # all I want is logrotate in cron.daily
> rm -f /etc/cron.daily/[^l]*
> rm -f /etc/cron.hourly/*
> rm -f /etc/cron.weekly/*
>
> # because I don't see the point of anything else.
> chmod a+r /var/log/*
>
> /usr/bin/logger rc.vinit running $1 at `date`
>
> case "$1" in
>    'start')
>        /etc/init.d/syslog start
>        /etc/init.d/crond start
>        /etc/init.d/scriptroute start
>        /etc/init.d/scriptroute-thttp start
>        /sbin/chkconfig syslog on
>        /sbin/chkconfig crond on
>        ;;
>    'stop')
>        /etc/init.d/scriptroute-thttp stop
>        /etc/init.d/scriptroute stop
>        /etc/init.d/crond stop
>        /etc/init.d/syslog stop
>        ;;
>    'restart')
>        /etc/init.d/syslog restart
>        /etc/init.d/crond restart
>        /etc/init.d/scriptroute restart
>        /etc/init.d/scriptroute-thttp restart
>        ;;
>    *)
>        echo rc.vinit was called with $1 as an argument
>        ;;
> esac
>
> /usr/bin/logger rc.vinit completed $1 at `date`
>
>
>
> On Sep 23, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Alex Sherman wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>> 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`
>> 
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