Bash Startup Script

[bdw238]

I writing a Linux Startup Script to control starting, stopping, restarting a perl daemon script. I have copied the start and stop elements below:

AUTOFTPSCRIPT=/home/ftp/FTPTransfer.pl
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting FTP Transfer Script: "
$AUTOFTPSCRIPT
touch /var/lock/subsys/FTPTransfer
echo "OK"
;;
stop)
echo -n "Shutdown FTP Transfer Script:"
pResult=`ps aux |grep perl |egrep -v grep |awk '{print $2}'`
echo " "
echo "pResult = $pResult"
echo " "
if [ -n "$pResult" ]
then
kill -15 $pResult
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/FTPTransfer
else
echo "ERROR :- The FTP Transfer was not running previous"
fi
echo "OK"

etc....


The stop element works, however the start element starts the perl script and then kills the perl script on the start-up script exit!

Can anyone suggest anything?

Regards


Brian

 

[mrn]

Run it

nohup /home/ftp/FTPTransfer.pl &


Mike

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[bdw238]

Thanks for the reply Mike,

I got it working now, but I solved it by placing "exec" in front of /home/ftp/FTPTransfer.pl

Thanks

Brian

 

[RodKnowlton]

bdw238,

Using [tt]exec[/tt], the [tt]touch[/tt] of the lock file won't happen. You don't check for the lock in the fragment you posted, but I'm assuming you care about it somewhere else.

- Rod


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[bdw238]

Good point,

I'll modify the perl script to deal with the lock file.

Regards


Brian