Re: How do I register a service?

[lrhorer <lrhorer@satx.rr.com>]

Camaleón wrote:

> On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:10:55 -0500, lrhorer wrote:
> 
>> Camaleón wrote:
>> 
>>>>> You mean what's the difference between "$network" and "networking"
>>>>> in LSB parlance?
>>>> 
>>>> Nevermind.  I found it.  I should be using insserv instead of
>>>> update-rc.d
>>> 
>>> Ah, that. Yep, "man update-rc.d" should also point to "insserv".
>>> 
>>> Greetings,
>>> 
>> OK, wait a minute.  It should work, but it isn't.
>> 
>> Here is pyHME:
>> 
>> #! /bin/sh
>> ### BEGIN INIT INFO
>> # Provides:          pyHME
>> # Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $network $pyTivo
>> # Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog $network $pyTivo
>> # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
>> # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
>> # Short-Description: HME Services
>> # Description:       Provides HME services for TiVo
>> #### END INIT INFO
>> 
>> but when I run `insserv pyHME` I get:
>> 
>> RAID-Server:/etc/rc2.d# ls -1 *py*
>> S04pyHME
>> S04pyTivo
>> 
>> That will run pyHME before pyTivo.  What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Test it and see how it goes.

	I had tested it, and it wasn't working.  That's why I 
posted again.

> Besides, there is more information on "insserv" here:
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts
> 
> And more specifically the FAQ section:
> 
> ***
> Is it possible to specify that a given script should start before
> another script?
> 
> There is no such standard-defined header, but there is a proposed
> extention implemented in the insserv package (since version 1.09.0-8).
> Use the X-Start-Before and X-Stop-After headers proposed by SuSe.
> ***

	What I wound up doing - that seemed to work - is define 
pyTivo as a service in insserv.conf.  After I did that,and ran insserv 
again, it moved pyHME to S05pyHME.  This should be better documented.