[Dxspider-support] Next question

[Bob Nielsen]

On Apr 12, 2011, at 12:07 AM, Ian Maude wrote:

> Can someone let me have a nice elegant script for Upstart in Ubuntu 10.04 please?  By the looks of it, I need to create one and drop it into the 'init' directory?

I don't know if Ubuntu has changed again, but here is what I use on my Sheevaplug (Marvell ARM-based $99 "plug" computer), which runs Ubuntu 9.04.   The plug device has been quite solid (and doesn't look that easy to upgrade so I have refrained from doing so):

#DXSpider startup script
#

start on runlevel 2
start on runlevel 3

stop on runlevel 0
stop on runlevel 1
stop on runlevel 4
stop on runlevel 5
stop on runlevel 6

respawn

exec /bin/su - sysop -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl" >/home/sysop/cluster.log

#end of startup script

The script i had added to the wiki was similar, except that the exec line redirected the output to a tty, which the headless sheevaplug doesn't have.

Bob, N7XY