init script

[n8willis]

Heyo. Is there anyone knowledgable enough to help me write an init script for SageTV server? I could start in on a user login session (GNOME in my case), I suppose, but it'd be better if it started at boot time I think.

Unfortunately, I've never written a boot script. Is it difficult? Does anyone know?

Thanks,
N

[oddjob]

wish I was home.. its easy just modify a existing one..

you will need to create some symlinks under /etc/rc0 /etc/rc1 /etc/rc2 /etc/rc3 . for startup and stopping server

or you can take the easy way out

and just modify /etc/rc.local put this line in : /opt/sagetv/server/startsage &
this will startup sagetv application when server is rebooted.

[npalombo]

I just set up Sage TV under linux with MVP clients for by brother-in-law. Everything runs well when I start it up. So I want to make sure it starts up at boot time.

As background, I have a lot of experience with linux, and unix in general. For myself at home, I have a MythTV setup. I set up the runlevel scripts for that with no problem. I just want you to know that I am familiar with the linux runlevel start procedure.

That's why this is making me crazy. I have tried everything to get the startsage script to run at startup. Under gentoo, I have installed a start script under /etc/runlevels/default. I tested the script from the command line and verified that it does work at that point. I put in a log and verified the script gets called at startup. But for some reason sage does not start. I can't seem to find any log files to indicate why it doesn't start up. So a couple questions:

Are there any runlevel scripts that I should be sure run before startsage?

Is there a log file or a properties I can set to debug the startsage script?

Originally Posted by oddjob

wish I was home.. its easy just modify a existing one..

you will need to create some symlinks under /etc/rc0 /etc/rc1 /etc/rc2 /etc/rc3 . for startup and stopping server

or you can take the easy way out

and just modify /etc/rc.local put this line in : /opt/sagetv/server/startsage &
this will startup sagetv application when server is rebooted.

[ChePazzo]

I'm still trying to figure this one out. Initially, I just put a smylink in rc.5 to /opt/sagetv/server/startsage. That never worked and when I called it from cmdline, I got an error about not being in the right directory.

Now, I modified an init script and reference startsage and stopsage under the 'start' and 'stop' cases. This is in rc.5. It does not work.

I will try the previous suggestion of also adding it to the other rc's and see if that helps.

[_Demo_]

I have attached a sample gentoo init script that can be added to default runlevel with rc-update add sagetv default.

_Demo_

/etc/init.d/sagetv

#!/sbin/runscript

depend() {
	need net localmount
	after bootmisc
}

start() {
	ebegin "Starting SageTV server"
	/opt/sagetv/server/startsage
	eend $?
}

stop() {
	ebegin "Stopping SageTV server"
	/opt/sagetv/server/stopsage
	# This can't really fail unless it was not running so we force success
	eend 0
}

[npalombo]

I won't get a chance to install this until after the new year. But I just wanted to thank you for your help now.

Nick

Originally Posted by _Demo_

I have attached a sample gentoo init script that can be added to default runlevel with rc-update add sagetv default.

_Demo_

[chip33az]

I just set up an Ubuntu Edgy server and used the following script (placed in /etc/init.d with 755 permissions). I called it sagetv (originial?) To have it run at boot up I did "update-rc.d sagetv defaults 20"

I'm not a scripting person, but it seemed to work just fine.

#!/bin/sh
set -e

case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting SageTV server"
/opt/sagetv/server/startsage
;;

stop)
echo "Stopping SageTV server"
/opt/sagetv/server/stopsage
;;

*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/sagetv {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0

[ChePazzo]

On the Ubuntu help pages, I found something to install called Gnome Boot or something like that. basically, it's a GUI to control what gets started at boot.

I copied the samba init script and basically created cases for 'start' (startsage), 'stop' (stopsage) and 'restart' (stopsage, then startsage), and saved it as '/etc/init.d/sagetv'

This GUI found it and allowed me to make it part of the init bootup sequence.