From: Bert Freudenberg
Subject: Re: [pws] sys admin questions
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 08:54:36 -0700

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, John Voiklis wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A while back some kind people helped with writing a script to start my Swiki
> on boot (btw I'm using one of those headless Cobalt Linux appliances). The
> script works fine, but NOT ON BOOT; I seem to have missed a step. Any
> Unix/Linux sys admins on the list have any ideas what I still need to do.
>
> Here is the script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
> SQUEAKDIR=/opt/ComSwiki
> SWPARAM="-headless -memory 40m"
> SWIKIVM=$SQUEAKDIR/skweak
> case "$1" in
> 	start)
> 		echo Starting Swiki
> 		cd $SQUEAKDIR/
> 		nohup $SWIKIVM $SWPARAM skweak.image &
> 		;;
> 	stop)
> 		echo -n Killing Swiki
> 		killproc $SWIKIVM
> 		echo
> 		;;
> 	restart)
> 		$0 stop;$0 start
> 		;;
> 	*)
> 		echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
> 		exit 1
> esac
> exit 0
> 
> It is saved here: /etc/rc.d/init.d

You'll also have to sym-link this script into the rc[0-6].d directories.  
This can be easiest done if you have the chkconfig command (see the
manpage).  If not, just look at how the other scripts are linked.

-- Bert