You can use upstart if you have that, with a .conf file. However unless you
source the profile.d or wherever your environment variables are held do not
use them in an init task!
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Christopher Schultz <
ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
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> Anthony,
>
> On 10/29/14 1:33 PM, Anthony Bungeroth wrote:
> > I basically need a script to run automatically when I reboot the
> > server.
> >
> > I have tried the various ways to get it to work in init.d and it's
> > not working. When I go into init.d and run it manually it works
> > though.
>
> That's good.
>
> > I think it has something to do with the fact that to run the
> > script manually I am logged in as root, whereas for it to run
> > automatically it has to run in the background.
>
> /etc/init.d are not usually run "in the background". Most /etc/init.d
> scripts are processed as "root" on boot, so that shouldn't matter.
>
> > I will include the script info in this email and see if you had an
> > idea as to where the issue is.
> >
> > So in /etc/init.d, there is a script called Tomcat, here is the
> > "start" portion of the script. Once again, when I run this
> > manually while logged in as root it launches.
> >
> > #!/bin/sh # Apache Tomcat Startup Script # chkconfig 234 20 80
> >
> > JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.6.0_45 CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat
> > TOMCAT_USER=tomcat
> >
> > start() { echo -n "Starting Tomcat: " su $TOMCAT_USER
> > $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
>
> I'm not sure that's going to work. "man su". On my system, the command
> comes first (with a "-c" switch), the username last. You might want to
> consider using "sudo" instead of "su".
>
> > sleep 2
>
> Sleep? Why?
>
> > }
> >
> > I tried creating a new script and putting that one in "rc.local".
> > Here is the "rc.local" command:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh # # This script will be executed *after* all the other
> > init scripts. # You can put your own initialization stuff in here
> > if you don't # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
> >
> > su tomcat /opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
> >
> > This is a total rookie issue I am sure....but just in case you
> > might be able to help with an easy enough fix, I would greatly
> > appreciate it. I don't even know where to look for error logs to
> > troubleshoot this.
>
> Don't use rc.local. Use /etc/init.d/[whatever]
>
> Remember that /etc/init.d scripts aren't directly executed at boot:
> you have to "ln -s" each script into /etc/rcX.d where X is the
> runlevel number into which the machine is booting.
>
> Hope that helps,
> - -chris
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