[NMLUG] Debian Startup Script

[unixgeek at zoelife4u.org (Gill Bates)]

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 05:11 pm, Tim Emerick wrote:
> Thanks Sam.  Just what I needed.
>
> My laziness is twofold.
>
> 1. I really love webmin which makes me a lazy admin.
> 2. I'm too lazy to install webmin on my debian machine.  I've had problems
> installing it on debian with apt-get and am too lazy to try again.
>
> Tim
hehe, i dunno about that, how hard is:
wget -c http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin-1.160.tar.gz
tar -xzvf webmin-1.160.tar.gz
cd webmin-1.160
./setup.sh /usr/local/webmin

and i'm as lazy as they get :P
though i lost my Debian system to a major hard drive crash, so i had to 
migrate my mail server to my Slackware system. (no apt-get) which i have 
found to be a little more typing but less headaches because they packages 
always install and work right off the bat. I'm lazy, but i don't like 
problems either. FreeBSD's ports system is rather reliable though :D
nice thing about apt-get is you get all the dependencies resolved and 
installed, but for something like webmin that only requires perl, apt-get, in 
my opinion, is just overkill.
>
> Sam Noble <sam.noble@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 08:30 -0700, Tim Emerick wrote:
> > Thanks for the pointers. I like the idea of setuid. Works just as
> > described. In my case I'm trying to make sure this prog runs as a
> > regular user instead of root. I plan on having it start at
> > boot.....if I can just figure out how.
>
> You put the script in /etc/init.d an then need a specially named symlink
> in the right /etc/rc* directory.
> There's a tool called updaterc that can set this up; but the syntax is a
> bear so I just make symlinks by hand.
>
> # ln -s /etc/init.d/boinc /etc/rcS.d/S20boinc
>
> where 20 is greater
> than /etc/rcS.d/S
> and less than /etc/rcS.d/S
>
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