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Tzury Bar Yochay
Asked: 2011-07-12 21:34:46 +0800 CST

update.rc-d init.d startup script is not starting

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I got a simple script called hwtestinit which I installed using 

update-rc.d hwtestinit defaults

On the surface, as far as I can inspect, all seems fine , I mean, the following files, all exists, etc.

/etc/rc0.d/K20hwtestinit -> ../init.d/hwtestinit
/etc/rc1.d/K20hwtestinit -> ../init.d/hwtestinit
/etc/rc6.d/K20hwtestinit -> ../init.d/hwtestinit
/etc/rc2.d/S20hwtestinit -> ../init.d/hwtestinit
/etc/rc3.d/S20hwtestinit -> ../init.d/hwtestinit
/etc/rc4.d/S20hwtestinit -> ../init.d/hwtestinit
/etc/rc5.d/S20hwtestinit -> ../init.d/hwtestinit

When I run the script manually, all seems fine, that is, issuing the command

/etc/init.d/hwtestinit start

Yields to the desired results.However, system is not executing the on startup, and I have no idea why. I could not find any mention of it at logs files found under /var/log and wonder ins which other log file I should look at.

The script is dumped below

#! /bin/sh

case "$1" in
  start)
    smarteventd -c /etc/sctest.ini
    lcdaemon --lcdtest    
    ;;
  stop)
    smarteventd --stop
    lcdaemon --stop
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/hwtestinit {start|stop}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0
10.04

2 Answers

  1. The output of sysv init scripts should end up in /var/log/boot.log. You would want to look in there for any output.

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  2. Best Answer

    I switched to Upstart instead of system V.

    Things work fine now. Quite strange though.

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