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1Writing System V init scripts for Red Hat Linux
2===============================================
3
4All System V init scripts are named /etc/rc.d/init.d/<servicename>
5where <servicename> is the name of the service.  There must be no
6".init" suffix.
7
8This path will very likely be moved to /etc/init.d in the future.
9Once Red Hat Linux 7.0 is installed, you can access scripts as
10/etc/init.d/<servicename>, via symlinks.
11
12Sample Script
13=============
14
15#!/bin/bash
16#
17#       /etc/rc.d/init.d/<servicename>
18#
19#       <description of the *service*>
20#       <any general comments about this init script>
21#
22# <tags -- see below for tag definitions.  *Every line* from the top
23#  of the file to the end of the tags section must begin with a #
24#  character.  After the tags section, there should be a blank line.
25#  This keeps normal comments in the rest of the file from being
26#  mistaken for tags, should they happen to fit the pattern.>
27
28# Source function library.
29. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
30
31<define any local shell functions used by the code that follows>
32
33start() {
34        echo -n "Starting <servicename>: "
35        <start daemons, perhaps with the daemon function>
36        touch /var/lock/subsys/<servicename>
37        return <return code of starting daemon>
38}       
39
40stop() {
41        echo -n "Shutting down <servicename>: "
42        <stop daemons, perhaps with the killproc function>
43        rm -f /var/lock/subsys/<servicename>
44        return <return code of stopping daemon>
45}
46
47case "$1" in
48    start)
49        start
50        ;;
51    stop)
52        stop
53        ;;
54    status)
55        <report the status of the daemons in free-form format,
56        perhaps with the status function>
57        ;;
58    restart)
59        stop
60        start
61        ;;
62    reload)
63        <cause the service configuration to be reread, either with
64        kill -HUP or by restarting the daemons, in a manner similar
65        to restart above>
66        ;;
67    condrestart)
68        <Restarts the servce if it is already running. For example:>
69        [ -f /var/lock/subsys/<service> ] && restart || :
70    probe)
71        <optional.  If it exists, then it should determine whether
72        or not the service needs to be restarted or reloaded (or
73        whatever) in order to activate any changes in the configuration
74        scripts.  It should print out a list of commands to give to
75        $0; see the description under the probe tag below.>
76        ;;
77    *)
78        echo "Usage: <servicename> {start|stop|status|reload|restart[|probe]"
79        exit 1
80        ;;
81esac
82exit $?
83
84Notes:
85
86- The restart and reload functions may be (and commonly are)
87  combined into one test, vis:
88    restart|reload)
89- You are not prohibited from adding other commands; list all commands
90  which you intend to be used interactively to the usage message.
91- Notice the change in that stop() and start() are now shell functions.
92  This means that restart can be implemented as
93     stop
94     start
95  instead of
96     $0 stop
97     $0 start
98  This saves a few shell invocations.
99
100Functions in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
101=======================================
102
103daemon  [ --check <name> ] [ --user <username>]
104        [+/-nicelevel] program [arguments] [&]
105
106        Starts a daemon, if it is not already running.  Does
107        other useful things like keeping the daemon from dumping
108        core if it terminates unexpectedly.
109       
110        --check <name>:
111           Check that <name> is running, as opposed to simply the
112           first argument passed to daemon().
113        --user <username>:
114           Run command as user <username>
115
116killproc program [signal]
117
118        Sends a signal to the program; by default it sends a SIGTERM,
119        and if the process doesn't die, it sends a SIGKILL a few
120        seconds later.
121
122        It also tries to remove the pidfile, if it finds one.
123
124pidofproc program
125
126        Tries to find the pid of a program; checking likely pidfiles,
127        and using the pidof program.  Used mainly from within other
128        functions in this file, but also available to scripts.
129
130status program
131
132        Prints status information.  Assumes that the program name is
133        the same as the servicename.
134
135
136Tags
137====
138
139# chkconfig: <startlevellist> <startpriority> <endpriority>
140
141        Required.  <startlevellist> is a list of levels in which
142        the service should be started by default.  <startpriority>
143        and <endpriority> are priority numbers.  For example:
144        # chkconfig: 2345 20 80
145        Read 'man chkconfig' for more information.
146
147        Unless there is a VERY GOOD, EXPLICIT reason to the
148        contrary, the <endpriority> should be equal to
149        100 - <startpriority>
150       
151# description: <multi-line description of service>
152
153        Required.  Several lines of description, continued with '\'
154        characters.  The initial comment and following whitespace
155        on the following lines is ignored.
156
157# description[ln]: <multi-line description of service in the language \
158#                  ln, whatever that is>
159
160        Optional.  Should be the description translated into the
161        specified language.
162
163# processname:
164
165        Optional, multiple entries allowed.  For each process name
166        started by the script, there should be a processname entry.
167        For example, the samba service starts two daemons:
168        # processname: smdb
169        # processname: nmdb
170
171# config:
172
173        Optional, multiple entries allowed.  For each static config
174        file used by the daemon, use a single entry.  For example:
175        # config: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
176        # config: /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf
177
178        Optionally, if the server will automatically reload the config
179        file if it is changed, you can append the word "autoreload" to
180        the line:
181        # config: /etc/foobar.conf autoreload
182
183# pidfile:
184
185        Optional, multiple entries allowed.  Use just like the config
186        entry, except that it points at pidfiles.  It is assumed that
187        the pidfiles are only updated at process creation time, and
188        not later.  The first line of this file should be the ASCII
189        representation of the PID; a terminating newline is optional.
190        Any lines other than the first line are not examined.
191
192# probe: true
193
194        Optional, used IN PLACE of processname, config, and pidfile.
195        If it exists, then a proper reload-if-necessary cycle may be
196        acheived by running these commands:
197
198        command=$(/etc/rc.d/init.d/SCRIPT probe)
199        [ -n "$command" ] && /etc/rc.d/init.d/SCRIPT $command
200
201        where SCRIPT is the name of the service's sysv init script.
202
203        Scripts that need to do complex processing could, as an
204        example, return "run /var/tmp/<servicename.probe.$$"
205        and implement a "run" command which would execute the
206        named script and then remove it.
207
208        Note that the probe command should simply "exit 0" if nothing
209        needs to be done to bring the service into sync with its
210        configuration files.
211
212Copyright (c) 2000 Red Hat Software, Inc.
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