<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Saturday 14 March 2009 12:07:21 pm Mark Greenwood wrote: > Another question for the boffins.. > > My Acer Aspire One needs a special script to control the fan. This script > is called /usr/local/bin/acerfand and, when I run it from the command line > it does indeed control the fan. acerfand is a bash script which daemonises > itself using magic I do not understand. > > To get it to start at boot I'm instructed to place the command line into > /etc/rc.local, so ignoring comments my /etc/rc.local now looks like > > #!/bin/sh -e > /usr/local/bin/acerfand > exit 0 > > If I run 'sudo /etc/rc.local' from the command line my fan script starts > running, the fan is being controlled and I can see acerfand as a running > process. > > On boot however, the script starts and then immediately exits (I put debug > in, I can see it in syslog starting up and then exiting). There is no > running process called acerfand after boot. Again, I type 'sudo > /etc/rc.local' at a command line and now there is a running acerfand > process. > > Why the different behaviour at boot, and how can I make it work? > > It worked on Mandriva.... ;) > > Thanks, > > Mark It would be easier to copy your fan control script into the /etc/init.d directory and then add it to the /etc/rc#.d/ as a softlink with either "S##acerfan" or "K##acerfan" (s is for start and the number is the order in which you want it to start, K is for kill or stop, and again the number indicates when you want it to stop relative to the other K's in the directory.). create a "acerfan" file (using /bin/bash instead of sh as its default on most Debian based distros) in /etc/init.d with the contents of what you put in rc.local (leaving off the "exit 0" line). then softlink the script in rc2.d (default runlevel in Debian based distros) as follows: ln -s /etc/init.d/acerfan /etc/rc2.d/S99acerfan ln -s /etc/init.d/acerfan /etc/rc6.d/K03acerfan that last line is optional. Then see what happens. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! </body></html>