[Dxspider-support] How to set up auto restart of DX spider in Centos 6?

[Bob Nielsen]

On Jan 8, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Alex Savenok wrote:

> Hi dxspider gurus!
> 
> I have moved my spider node 4z5lz-2 to the new server on Centos 6, 64bits.
> But unfortunately I can't create auto start of the node.
> It seems that Centos 6 doesn't support configuration in /etc/inittab as described in http://www.dxcluster.org/main/spiderFAQ_en-2.html#ss2.1 
> 
> I've tried to add in /etc/rc.d/init.d/dxspider:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # chkconfig: 2345 99 00
> 
> case "$1" in
> 'start')
>         /bin/su -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl" cqplanet > /dev/tty7
>         touch /var/lock/subsys/dxspider
>         ;;
> 'stop')
>         rm -f /var/lock/subsys/dxspider
>         ;;
> *)
>         echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }"
>         ;;
> esac
> exit 0
> 
> But it doesn't help me too.
> 
> How can I solve my problem?
> 
> Thank you very much! 73!
> Alex
> 4Z5LZ-2

I'm not familiar with Centos, but possibly it uses upstart, which has been adopted by several recent distribution versions.  The wiki has updated information which may be helpful:

http://wiki.dxcluster.org/index.php/Configuration#Autostarting_the_cluster

73, Bob N7XY