/etc/inittab respawn daemon entry

[Harald Hoyer]

Look in the tty files:

# cyclone
#

start on stopped rc2
start on stopped rc3
start on stopped rc4
start on started prefdm

stop on runlevel 0
stop on runlevel 1
stop on runlevel 6

respawn
exec /etc/spyforce/cyclone


Omon Edeki (Nowell, Inc) wrote:
> Also I am using upstart 0.3.9
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Omon Edeki (Nowell, Inc)" <omon.edeki at nowellgroup.com>
> To: "Garrett Cooper" <yanegomi at gmail.com>
> Cc: <upstart-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:14 AM
> Subject: Re: /etc/inittab respawn daemon entry
> 
> 
>> Greetings again. Here is the content of my file called 'syncjenius_win' 
>> that
>> I placed in the /etc/event.d directory (Is this the right directory?) on
>> Fedora 10
>>
>> # cyclone
>> #
>> # This service is started automatically by init
>> #
>>
>> description "cyclone  daemon"
>> author  "Nowell, Inc"
>>
>> start on startup
>>
>> start on runlevel 2
>> start on runlevel 3
>> start on runlevel 4
>> start on runlevel 5
>>
>>
>> stop on runlevel 0
>> stop on runlevel 1
>> stop on runlevel 6
>>
>> respawn
>> exec /etc/spyforce/cyclone
>>
>> [END]
>>
>> -The program does start on boot (good)
>> -We ran a test to see if will actually restart if terminated.
>> - When you send the /etc/spyforce/cyclone the kill signal it DOES NOT
>> restart
>> -We want it such that if for any reason the program is stopped or 
>> terminated
>> it MUST restart as it was in earlier versions of linux when we used 
>> inittab
>>
>> Please if anyone can help Ill appreciate it. Also am I placing my file in
>> the right directory? Currently I have it placed in /etc/event.d
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Omon
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanegomi at gmail.com>
>> To: "Omon Edeki (Nowell, Inc)" <omon.edeki at nowellgroup.com>
>> Cc: <upstart-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 10:17 PM
>> Subject: Re: /etc/inittab respawn daemon entry
>>
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Omon Edeki (Nowell, Inc)
>>> <omon.edeki at nowellgroup.com> wrote:
>>>> Greetings everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I have a SPECIFIC question. We are migrating our server application
>>>> daemon/service from an earlier version on Linux to Fedora 10. Fedora 10
>>>> appears to use a program called upstart.
>>>>
>>>> Our older program used the /etc/inittab to bootup and it had this entry
>>>>
>>>> cyc:2345:respawn:/etc/spyforce/cyclone
>>>>
>>>> Essentially when the system booted up, the program cyclone would run and
>>>> if
>>>> it every died or was killed, init would seamlessly restart it.
>>>>
>>>> My question is how exactly do I replicate this process with the upstart
>>>> design for Fedora 10? Also I tried entering some commands in a file in
>>>> the
>>>> Fedora 10 /etc/event.d directory. I created a file and tried but I could
>>>> not
>>>> replicate the formed init respawn process. Can I get some advice or
>>>> documentation about specifically how to do this?
>>>>
>>>> Respectfully,
>>>>
>>>> Omon
>>> Omon,
>>>
>>>    1. F10 comes with Upstart 0.3.9. Not sure when they'll be able to
>>> upgrade to 0.5.0
>>>    2. If you were using 0.5.0, you'd do something like the following:
>>>
>>> # Start me when rc[2-5] startup.
>>> start on started rc2 rc3 rc4 rc5
>>> # Bring me back to life if I die!
>>> respawn
>>> # Let me rest in peace if I die
>>> respawn limit 2 10
>>>
>>> exec /etc/spyforce/cyclone
>>>
>>>    Some documentation to peruse (again, for 0.5.0 -- not 0.3.9):
>>> http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/Stanzas . Make sure to hit the kill and
>>> normal exit stanzas as well.
>>>
>>> -Garrett
>>
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