[PLUG] Starting a POE server at startup

Roderick A. Anderson raanders at acm.org
Tue Jan 9 22:57:04 UTC 2007


Paul Heinlein wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Paul.


Rod
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