[ubuntu-uk] Init Script fun

[Rob Beard]

On 29/06/10 20:20, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 29/06/10 20:08, Rob Beard wrote:
>> Now running one of these streams is fine, it starts fine and goes into
>> the background.  If I run a second stream (basically start the next
>> init.d script) it will start to run the script but then come up with an
>> error about it already running.
>
> PIDs.
>
> The start-stop-daemon should create a pid file so that it knows which
> app to kill. These are usually stored in /var/run/
>
> I'm guessing that you will need to create different PIDs for each
> instance that you are trying to run. Try
>
> # man start-stop-daemon
>
> and take a look at the options.
>
> HTH
>
> Al
>
>

Thanks Al,

I managed to get it working.  I had to add the --user and then the 
username the process was running under to stop it.  Basically it now 
starts the process as root, then changes to a different user.

All seems to be working now when I try and start the init script from 
root from the shell, so it's getting there.

Now I have to figure out why it won't start at boot (when entering 
runlevel 2).  I've linked the init.d scripts into files 
S20icecast-stream1...2... and so on and even added them to /etc/rc.local 
but they're not starting at boot.

Not to worry, I'm making progress.  I'm going to call it a night now and 
look at it tomorrow after sleeping on it.

Rob