Yes, for Ubuntu, it's in the "debian" directory. The init script you want is "openvswitch-switch.init", which calls ovs-ctl, which starts ovsdb-server (and does a bunch of other init-related stuff).
If you're using Ubuntu, you may want to look at using the prebuilt packages in your distribution or building new ones. --Justin On Feb 7, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Umair Hoodbhoy <umairhoodb...@gmail.com> wrote: > What exactly would the init script be that I should be looking for? I'm > running Ubuntu, so I guess that would be in the 'debian' directory. If so, > then under that directory I see several files with a .init extention. In > particular, there is a debian/openvswitch-switch.init that has the following > line 28: > > (test -x /usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd && test -x /usr/sbin/ovsdb-server) || exit 0 > > But my path to ovsdb-server is actually /usr/local/sbin/ovsdb-server and > there are no symbolic links. So is that the problem? > > Am I totally off the right path? I'm not sure exactly what I need to do to > get the Ubuntu/Debian init script running. Do I need 'upstart', for example? > Thanks. > > > -- Umair > > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Justin Pettit <jpet...@nicira.com> wrote: > Running that command doesn't cause it to install itself on boot. You need > some sort of init script to do that. We've included ones for various > distributions in the OVS sources. > > (The commands are different but basically equivalent (other than the > --log-file) because if you don't specify a database, it assumes the location > is "/usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db".) > > --Justin > > > On Feb 7, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Umair Hoodbhoy <umairhoodb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have OVS 1.7.3 successfully installed and ovsdb-server is running. But > > upon reboot it is not. INSTALL.Linux says to run this: > > > > % ovsdb-server \ > > --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock \ > > --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,manager_options \ > > --private-key=db:SSL,private_key \ > > --certificate=db:SSL,certificate \ > > --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:SSL,ca_cert \ > > --pidfile --detach > > > > But that doesn't make it persistent across reboots. Then I read this > > somewhere to make it persistent: > > % ovsdb-server /usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db \ > > --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock \ > > --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,manager_options \ > > --private-key=db:SSL,private_key \ > > --certificate=db:SSL,certificate \ > > --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:SSL,ca_cert --pidfile --detach --log-file > > > > But I still get this after a reboot: > > > > root@ubuntu:~# ps -Af | grep ovsdb-server > > root 2493 2435 0 18:23 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto > > ovsdb-server > > root@ubuntu:~# > > > > Any ideas? > > > > -- Umair > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > discuss@openvswitch.org > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
