[Dxspider-support] Inittab ??

[Brendan Minish]

Dirk

Centos6 uses upstart, Centos7 has migrated to systemd 

I am not sure what Debian7 uses, it may well still be upstart or even
systemV, Debian8 Definitely uses systemd 

A quick look at one of the other config scripts should reveal which is
in use 

My Upstart config for centos6 is here
http://wiki.dxcluster.org/index.php/Centos6#Service_Configuration


I should find the time sometime to do full instructions on the wiki for
installing on Centos7, it's very straightforward.


To the original poster 

it would be 'better' to use an appropriate systemd/upstart config and
let the system manage the cluster as a service 
Using init to do it is a bit 'hackish' 

73
Brendan EI6IZ  

On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 12:38 +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> This appears to be upstart, not systemd (?). There are examples on 
> the 
> mailing list for ubuntu upstart files.
> 
> My upstart script looks like this:
> 
> 
> #DXSpider startup script
> #
> # This service maintains a copy of dxspider from the point the system 
> is
> # started until it is shut down again.
> 
> description "DXSpider DX Cluster"
> start on filesystem
> stop on runlevel S
> 
> respawn
> umask 0002
> exec su -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl >dev/null 2>&1" 
> spider
> 
> On 22/07/15 12:24, Brendan Minish wrote:
> > Hello Peter
> > 
> > the best way to start the cluster on a systemd based system is with 
> > an
> > appropriate service file which will allow systemd to manage the 
> > cluster
> > service
> > 
> > on my centos7 notes you will see an example of how this looks on
> > centos7
> > 
> > some of the paths might be different on your debian system but the
> > basics will be the same
> > 
> > http://wiki.dxcluster.org/index.php/Centos7
> > 
> > 73
> > Brendan EI6IZ (sysop EI7MRE)
> > 
> > On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 12:47 +0200, Peter wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Running Debian7 here a the latest version but it doesn't use 
> > > inittab
> > > any more.
> > > 
> > >  From man inittab:
> > >   The  /etc/inittab  file was the configuration file used by the
> > > original  System V init(8) daemon.
> > >   The Upstart init(8) daemon does not use this file,  and 
> > >  instead
> > > reads  its  configuration  from  files  in  /etc/init.   See 
> > >  init(5)
> > > for more  details.
> > > 
> > > Looked around in /etc/init and several.conf files. Tried to find 
> > > help
> > > on-line.
> > > I can't get autostart of dx-spider  working anymore.
> > > Any hint/help?
> > > 
> > > Peter
> > > PC2A
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> 
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73
Brendan EI6IZ