[PLUG] Starting a POE server at startup
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Jan 9 22:16:48 UTC 2007
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> This is for a Redhat-ian ( Redhat, CentOS, Whitebox, Fedora, etc. )
> system using the SYSV init process.
>
> I have a POE server I'd like automagically started when the system
> comes up. What is the preferred method for doing this?
>
> Actually I have no problem creating an init.d script but since this
> simple server doesn't do a lot of fancy stuff at start-up ( capture
> it's and write its pid and so forth ) I thought there might be a
> better way.
>
> Searches of the web tune up nothing and the POE site doesn't get
> into this.
If you aren't going to be starting and stopping this server with any
regularity, the easiest way to start a process at boot time is adding
a line or two to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. A process started that way won't
start/stop when you change runlevels, but it'll always be there after
bootup.
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