"Start on reboot" fails for a daemon; script works OK from commandline

[Amazator]

Hi,

Our company has designed a daemon that I would need to program to start on a reboot (in runlevel 5). I've created a daemon script for the same (which looks like all other daemon scripts.....the standard ones which accept start|stop|status|restart) and created symbolic links in rc5.d.

The problem is that the daemon seems to start on reboot but gets killed sometime shortly later. When I reboot and do a 'ps -ef' I don't see the process running. /var/log/boot.log shows that an attempt was made to start the daemon and the message was "Started successfully".

It starts alright when I manually issue a "/etc/rc5.d/<script> start" but the funny thing I described above seems to happen after every reboot.

Anyone faced anything like this before? Any ideas on how to investigate further? Thanks for ur time and help in advance!

-Amazator

 

[QatQat]

is it a matter of startup order of daemons?
Does your daemon need another one or more than one to be started before it can start succesfully?


QatQat

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[Amazator]

Hi,

No, there is no failure of dependency for my daemon. It runs in level 5 (full graphical interface level for Red Hat Linux I'm using). It has got to be something else...

Thanks.