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Michael Cole
Asked: 2014-02-11 17:10:46 +0800 CST

My init script not showing up in service autocomplete

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I made a init script for a ghost website. I'm using Linux Mint 16 (aka Ubuntu 13.10)

When I type this, my script doesn't show up in autocomplete. 

sudo service f<tab>

Any reason why? I get a different script "friendly_recover", but not mine.

Thanks!

Mike

/etc/init/furtheryet.org.conf

# furtheryet.org

start on startup

script
    cd /var/www/furtheryet.org/ghost
    npm start --production
end script
bash

3 Answers

  1. This is an old question, but I reached it through Google, and the selected answer is wrong.

    Upstart jobs have to be placed to /etc/init folder.

    Every package that provides a standard daemon using upstart is required to provide a symlink in /etc/init.d by Debian policy.

    Then, autocompletion for sudo service name will work.

    There are special upstart jobs in /etc/init that do not have a corresponding entry in /etc/init.d. These are an exception.

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  2. If you're in the same directory type ./f then hit <tab>. Otherwise you have to type: /etc/init/f before you hit <tab>.

    And your script has to be executable:

    chmod +x /etc/init/furtheryet.org.conf
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  3. Best Answer

    Do you expect that sudo service f<tab> will auto-complete with sudo service furtheryet.org.conf ?

    No, it will not, because :

    • it is just a config file
    • it is located in the wrong directory for that

    You should consider the /etc/init.d folder :

    • The /etc/init/ folder only contains configuration files used by Upstart.

    • The /etc/init.d folder contains shell scripts that respond to start, stop, restart, reload (and whatwever you could implement).

    Further reading : https://askubuntu.com/questions/5039/what-is-the-difference-between-etc-init-and-etc-init-d

    That said, to make your script auto-complete, you should at least put it in the /etc/init.d folder, and make it executable.

    But your script is actually just a config file. You should consider writing a specific service/init script and put it in your /etc/init.d folder.

    In some cases i've notice that even if the script is located in /etc/init.d you may have issues with auto-complete on Ubuntu 13.10 as root user.

    To correct this, as root user, edit $HOME/.bachrc file and uncomment the following :

    if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
    . /etc/bash_completion
fi

    Then reload your .bashrc file by running : . $HOME/.bashrc

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