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Richard
Asked: 2011-11-29 03:41:13 +0800 CST

Start heartbeat automatically on reboot?

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Newbie question, sorry - I've been googling 'start automatically on reboot ubuntu' and the like, but I'm not sure I've found the definitive answer.

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and I would like to make sure that heartbeat starts automatically whenever the server reboots.

Currently I am running the following manually:

$ /etc/init.d/heartbeat start

How can I make sure this is called whenever the server restarts?

One answer I googled suggested:

$ update-rc.d heartbeat defaults

would do the trick - is that correct?

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3 Answers

  1. Type update-rc.d heartbeat defaults

    and it will be starting automaticly after reboot

    if you wanna turn it off type 'update-rc.d -f heartbeat remove`

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  2. It should. Basically, the startup process doesn't actually look in /etc/init.d, it looks in /etc/rc2.d (or whatever is defined as the startup run level). The files in /etc/rc2.d should be symlinks to files in /etc/init.d:

    $ ls -l /etc/rc2.d
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  14 Sep 19 14:13 K16nsca -> ../init.d/nsca
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 677 Mar 30  2011 README
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  19 Aug 15 17:30 S10syslog-ng -> ../init.d/syslog-ng
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  23 Jul  6 20:18 S20chef-expander -> ../init.d/chef-expander
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  19 Jun 30 19:46 S20chef-solr -> ../init.d/chef-solr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  17 Jun 30 19:46 S20couchdb -> ../init.d/couchdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  20 Jul 22 16:20 S20fancontrol -> ../init.d/fancontrol
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  15 Jun 30 19:46 S20jetty -> ../init.d/jetty
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  28 Jul 22 16:20 S20nagios-nrpe-server -> ../init.d/nagios-nrpe-server

    and so on.

    For Heartbeat to start up on boot, it should have a symlink along those lines.

    You can create these links manually, but Ubuntu uses the update-rc.d command to manage those symlinks, so you don't have to.

    Since the /etc/rc2.d directory is root-owned and permissioned, you will need to actually run:

    $ sudo update-rc.d heartbeat defaults

    to run the command with superuser permissions. When it runs, it should show you the set of symlinks it will create. In addition to the one in /etc/rc2.d, it should put similar links in the other /etc/rc?.d directories, including links in /etc/rc6.d (for example) to shut down the service as the box shuts down.

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  3. try running the script again, some scripts just say they are started and dont complain at all. Also if I am not mistaking, what you are doing is saying run this script heartbeat, BUT you are not giving the script any arguments. (If I understand this page correctly)

    What you can do is make a script named foo with :

    /etc/init.d/heartbeat start

    make it executable with chmod +x

    and then run the command update-rc.d foo defaults

    It will run all the commands in the foo script on boot up.

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