[Dxspider-support] ubuntu and dxspider

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Ian J Maude wrote:

> Ian J Maude wrote:
>>
>> You should be able to find it in the wiki at
>> http://www.gb7mbc.net/spiderwiki
>>
> Answering my own point it is not there.  I thought someone had added
> it.  Could someone let us know and I will add it myself.

I'm still running an older version of Ubuntu (6.06 LTS), but from  
perusing the Ubuntu website, it appears that sysvinit has been  
replaced by upstart.  This would require creating a file in /etc/ 
event.d to do the same function for spider as was done by inittab.     
The existing files in /etc/event.d could probably be used as examples  
for doing this.

It should probably look something like:

start on runlevel 2
start on runlevel 3

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

respawn
exec /bin/su -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl" sysop >/ 
dev/tty7

Caveat:  I haven't actually tried this.

It appears that the sysvinit package is still available (and  
conflicts with upstart), so installing it should work with the  
original inittab syntax.

Bob, N7XY


The sysvinit package is still available and could be installed to do  
things the "old way" (this package conflicts with upstart so there  
shouldn't be any conflicts).