Programming :: Bash - Creating Service For A Script?
May 10, 2010
I wrote a script for capturing port 5060 with tshark.Well, it's only a line, but I needed to send a positional var, and I couldn't do it with an alias. Now I need that script to run as a service, so I can start/stop. (Using CentOS)
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#
# capture service
[code]....
One more thing, my goal is to start/stop the service with
Code:
service myservice start|stop
Is that possible? I read that I must use chkconfig.
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May 7, 2011
I am trying to create a custom service to manage a minecraft server what runs in a screen session (this is to allow easy console access as opposed to running it as a nohup background process). I am hitting two main issues with this script so far and wondering if anybody is able to shed some light on it, considering I am far from the greatest BASH scripter on Earth.
The issues are related to start and stop. the first issue with start is there is a command run "screen -dmS minecraft java -Xms1024M -Xmx1024M -jar /minecraft/minecraft.jar nogui" what doesn't appear to work, however when run from console (copy and pasted) this command seems to run perfectly. I am uncertain as to why this is not working within the script. Also if run from a script in /minecraft it also appears to work but in the minecraftd script I have created at /etc/init.d it does not work. I think the issue might be related to the location but am not certain on it, nor how to resolve it.
the second issue with stop is that it works sometimes but at other times it does not, overall it seems to work about 30~50% of the time. When it works it passes a couple of disconnection messages to the screen session and then gives the stop command (the command to gracefully terminate the minecraft server). It seems to work more often when using screen that I attach to the minecraft session while it is running but really not sure if this is an issue with my scripting or an issue with how I am passing things to screen.
The full code in /etc/init.d/minecraftd is below
Code:
#!/bin/bash
## Script Information
## Script Author: Berwick East
[code]....
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Feb 2, 2011
list the used variables.
1. display menu until user quits the script
2. menu would give following options to
a. create backup
b. restore files from backup
c. quit
3. for option a or b user would be required to specify the files and name of the archive]
4. has option to be run with use of parameters if that is the case it will not display menu but carry out required task unless it was not possible to do
5. incase of any errors are encountered it would call external scrpit that would display custom disigned error message.
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May 7, 2011
looking to write a dependency map tree that creates a tree structure of object names . This tree will be written to a file and read back to create the tree structure of files . how to write this using bash ?
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May 15, 2009
Is it possible to create a text based menu layout in bash were it is possible to browse through. The menu list should look something like this:
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user: root
colour: blue
number: 4
animal: dog
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At the start the cursor should blink at the r from root so that text can be entered. When pressing the enter the cursor should go to the b from blue and so on. the imported thing is that all the text is visible also beyond the position from the cursor.
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Jan 26, 2011
I have a command that outputs n lines of text, and I want to place each line into an array element, but I can't seem to get the syntax correct
So my command is this:
cat $configfile | sed -n '/cluster:'$clustername'/,/cluster/ p' | awk /host/
Which produces many lines depending on the value of $clustername. I'd like to get each line as elements of an array.
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Mar 17, 2009
I am new to linux, running a brand new centos 5.2 server. One application I want to use it for is to serve as a network host for a game my friends and I enjoy. Normally, to run the game in host mode you call the binary and pass it a port number (along with other options). To host a second instance of the game, same thing different port, you get the idea.
After doing that the binary runs in your window and dumps to stdout, so if you want it to run 24/7 you have to come up with your own strategy like nohup. Fair enough, now, I'm trying to coax the game into restarting automatically upon reboot. The most correct way to do this seemed to be to write a script for init.d so that's the road I traveled down. Now, to strain the metaphor, the pavement has ended and I'm stuck in the sand.
Here begin my questions:
I've been following the structure of other init.d scripts and I notice they all seem to call the function daemon() (contained in /etc/init.d/functions) to start their services. Looking at the structure of daemon() I see that you can pass it a user and a pidfile. The user part seems to work fine, but no pidfile is created. Let me be more specific.
Like the other scripts, I explicitly touch /var/lock/subsys/game-port on startup, which works fine. However, all of those other services seem to have a pidfile in /var/run and mine doesn't. They don't create it explicitly in their init.d script therefore I assume that some other process is creating the pidfile. At first I thought it would be the call to daemon(), since you have the option of passing it --pidfile, but that doesn't seem to work.
Are the services themselves creating the pidfile? If that's the case then I have more complications because the game binary apparently doesn't do this. Second question but probably related to the first. None of the other init.d scripts I looked at seem to do anything special to detach their services from a particular terminal session, therefore I didn't think that I would need to either.
Again I thought this was something the call to daemon() might accomplish, but either I'm wrong or I'm doing something wrong. I can probably work around this with nohup or appending '&' or something, but I'm just curious that other services like crond, sshd, named, etc., don't seem to do this. Are they determining this behavior from within the binaries themselves? I hope this is clear, as I said I'm new so I may not be getting all of the terminology correct.
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how to do in Debian
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2. Show how you would configure an Ethernet card by reapplying your existing IP and network mask
3. Install a workable nfs file sharing system between your system and a remote system, using optimum values for resize and wsize.To demonstrate send a 512Mb block of random data between client and server using the dd command.Write down the relevant steps and procedures
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Apr 20, 2011
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Feb 4, 2011
I would like to know how do I print the line # in a script. My requirement is, I have a script which is about ~5000 lines long. If there are any errors happen I just exit. And I would like to add the line # of the script where the error happened.
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Jan 24, 2010
simple bash code:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
trap "echo 'you got me'" SIGINT SIGTERM # to trap ctrl+c
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for ((i=0;i<5;i++)); do
[Code]...
How come code behaves normally and stops when ctrl+c signal is caught and resumes, but after I use at least one timeout read in the code it looks like, if signal is caught again it doesn't pause the execution but skips the loop. If you remove -t (timeout) option from the read, both loops look the same!
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Apr 21, 2011
Code:
#!/bin/bash
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Nov 26, 2008
I have a config file that contains:
my.config:
Code:
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Here is my parse_cmd script:
Code:
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Jul 25, 2011
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Now there are so many I am thinking it would be better to have a master bash script that would run one after the other, but I am not sure how to get the master script to wait before starting to run the next script. Is this possible and is there a command that will make the script wait between bash and php scripts , for them to finish, before running the next?
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Feb 26, 2011
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Aug 12, 2011
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do
for y in `seq 0.20 0.01 0.40`
[code]....
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Jan 9, 2010
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Code:
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Nov 20, 2010
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Oct 21, 2009
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Nov 10, 2010
I created a small C++ program which starts a server in a separate thread and waits the user to press q using the standard input/output. Something like:
Code:
printf(...);
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Mar 31, 2011
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find . -name DOC* | while read i
do
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May 5, 2010
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Code:
Summary: A program that increases WAN performance.
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Version: 0.3.05
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Mar 8, 2010
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Dec 16, 2010
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Code:
int main()
{
int *buffer;
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Apr 4, 2010
I have 2 questions... I couldn't find answers by Googling (more precisely, by Blackling) and in GCC documents, so I'm asking here.
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Oct 15, 2010
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May 1, 2009
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Jan 31, 2010
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would you be kind enough to give me the workout solutions.
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