On Apr 23, 2005, at 11:41 AM, kevin hanrahan wrote:
Hello all,
For reasons which I cannot understand, our unix admins feel the need to
reboot their machines constantly. I don't think there is an uptime
exceeding 2 weeks!! However when that happens, the BB client stops
reporting and I eventually get the purple alerts from Hobbit. Can
someone tell me how to get the clients to auto-restart? Also, I am not a
coder so please don't tell me to "write a script to make them start at
reboot" because that is obvious....i just don't know how. Thank you for
all input on this.
kevin
Here is the script we use. This one is from a Linux machine and you will need to set BBHOME and BBUSER. Under Linux you can use the chkconfig command to add this. Under other OSes you will need to link it to the run levels you want it to start/stop. Any UNIX administrator should be able to do this or you are paying them too much.
John
% more /etc/init.d/bb
#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: 345 89 19
# description: Start up script for Big Brother
#
# Big Brother Startup
PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin # FOR su
BBHOME=/opt/bb/bb
BBUSER=bb
case "$1" in
start)
su - $BBUSER -c "cd $BBHOME;./runbb.sh start"
echo "Starting Big Brother."
#&SLEEP
;;
restart)
su - $BBUSER -c "cd $BBHOME;./runbb.sh restart"
echo "Restarting Big Brother."
#&SLEEP
;;
stop)
su - $BBUSER -c "cd $BBHOME;./runbb.sh stop"
echo "Stopping Big Brother."
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0