[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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