[Dxspider-support] ubuntu and dxspider

[Stephen M. Murphy]

Here's the Upstart script (/etc/event.d/dxspider) that I use with Ubuntu:

  # spider -start dxspider

  #
  # This service maintains the DXSpider node from the point the system is
  # started until it is shut down again.

  start on runlevel 2
  start on runlevel 3
  start on runlevel 4
  start on runlevel 5

  stop on shutdown

  respawn
  exec /spider/perl/cluster.pl tty9

There's probably a better way to do it, but this gets the job done.

73,

Steve N8NM

Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 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). 
> 
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