[SOLVED] F16 Startup script

[yaxattax]

Hi all,

I'm trying to run a script at startup. I've read a lot about the systemd way and it seems that it is the new way to do things, since I can't seem to get a sysV init script working at all.

The problem I have with the systemd way, is that it is a script that spawns a process, and the script itself then dies. If invoked from command line it works fine, but for some reason systemd takes the death of the top level script as a sign to stop all the child processes, which I do not want. How can I signal in the service file that the children processes should be allowed to persist?

Kind regards,

Yaqub

[stevea]

Post your systemv script. We can't just guess at what is wrong.
Did you use the 'daemon' shell function ? Did you start in the background or w/ nohup ? Does he process close the terminal stdin/stdout/stderr to avoid the sighup ?

[yaxattax]

I'm not interested in getting a sysV script working. I've read about a lot of problems of broken sysV scripts due to systemd, and a much simpler "fix" than fiddling around with broken sysV init scripts would simply be to add it to my bashrc. I want to know if I can stop the processes from dying when the start script has finished.

In case I misunderstand you, and you wanted to know what my systemd service file was:

[root@fedora16-yax:/home/yaxattax/tmp]# cat /etc/systemd/system/TMW_lmgr.service
[Unit]
Description=The Mathworks FlexLM Licence Server

[Service]
ExecStart=/etc/init.d/flexlm start
ExecReload=/etc/init.d/flexlm stop
ExecReload=/etc/init.d/flexlm start
ExecStop=/etc/init.d/flexlm stop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
WantedBy=graphical.target
[root@fedora16-yax:/home/yaxattax/tmp]#

---------- Post added at 04:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:46 PM ----------

I found the solution:

[Unit]
Description=The Mathworks FlexLM Licence Server

[Service]
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/etc/init.d/flexlm start
ExecReload=/etc/init.d/flexlm stop
ExecReload=/etc/init.d/flexlm start
ExecStop=/etc/init.d/flexlm stop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
WantedBy=graphical.target

The difference is the following line:

RemainAfterExit=yes

I found another option:

Type=oneshot

But that seemed to cause my service to throw an error