How to start a daemon each time server is rebooted? 1

[Yrrk]

I've got AIX 5.2.0.0 installed and sshd. I can do a startsrc to start the sshd but anytime i reboot i have to telnet to the box and start it manually.

Can someone remind me how to make it automatically start it on reboot?

Thanks!

 

[kHz]

man mkssys

 

[Yrrk]

Maybe i'm blind but i don't see anything obvious that does that for me in mkssys.. I tried chssys -s sshd -QR hoping that would do it but can't reboot the server at the moment to check. It's already a defined subsystem so the only thing i'm trying to do is make it start automatically on system bootup.

 

[cspilman]

Put an entry in the inittab file using 'mkitab' that starts it.

Regards,
Chuck

 

[kHz]

just vi /etc/inittab and add your entry.

for example:
ssh:2nce:/usr/local/bin/sshd

I suggested mkssys because it is then under the system resource controller and you can use srcmaster to control it. You still would have needed to add an entry to inittab, but you could have started it with startsrc -s <subsystem>.

 

[p5wizard]

or put the startsrc -s sshd line in /etc/rc.net - perhaps it's already there and you just need to uncomment it?


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[hfaix]

kHz and p5wizard both make excellent recommendations. Either should work. I prefer the inittab entry.