Sounds like your problem can be easily solved by reading the manpage, as the previous email from Paul suggests. man chkconfig will tell you exactly why "service service-name does not support chkconfig"
The whole point of chkconfig is to manage the installing of the service for you ( e.g. symlinks to init.d/yourscript from different run levels) You need specially formatted comments in your scripts, starting with something like "# chkconfig : 2345 80 20" - the manpage has an example. > -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Stephen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:57 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: Installing Tomcat as a Service > > > Thanks for the reply, I've tried creating a script in the /etc/init.d > directory and then running the chkconfig --add script-name and this hasn't > worked for me. > > I'm getting an error saying that: > service service-name does not support chkconfig > > I must still be doing something wrong? > > The script has the same permissions showing in the ls -l list? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Yunusov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 August 2003 13:24 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Installing Tomcat as a Service > > > On August 20, 2003 04:19 am, Stuart Stephen wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > How might I go about installing Tomcat as a service in RedHat 9.0. I've > > never installed a service under linux manually before and I'm not sure > what > > to do. I can't find the appropriate documentation in the manuals for > either > > Tomcat or RedHat. I must be looking in the wrong places :O( > > > > UNRELATED: Also, If I wanted to install a java program as a service, how > > might I do this? Is this a similar process? > > > > Regards, > > Stuart > > man chkconfig > man serviceconf > man init > > For a Java program, write a wrapper shell script like Tomcat authors did > with > catalina.sh. > > Paul > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
