On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Cindy Ballreich wrote:
> I suppose that this is really a Xvfb or even a Linux question, but since it
> directly relates to Cocoon I hope you'll allow me to ask it here. I've
> tried linux.redhat.misc with no success.
>
> I have a very basic RedHat 7.0 web server (Apache 1.3.20) and I want to run
> Cocoon 2.0 with Tomcat 3.3. Apparently, I also need to run Xvfb in order
> for Cocoon to work properly. I would very much like to start Xvfb at boot
> time along with all of the other web services. I've written an init.d
> script to do this. This script works very well from the command line, but
> for some reason it won't work at boot time. Perhaps Xvfb requires a service
> that isn't running when it tries to start? I was wondering if anyone might
> be doing this successfully and if they'd mind sharing their init.d script.
> I'd also appreciate being pointed to any documentation that might explain
> what I'm doing wrong.
>
> My current script was accepted by chkconfig and all of the rc.d links are
> present. It works great from the command line and *appears* to work at boot
> time (I get the "starting" message and the result is "OK"), but once the
> system finishes booting and I log on there is no instance of Xvfb running.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Here is the script that I'm currently using...
>
>[code]
You want perhaps look on the fbset service from the suse dist.
I have this file attached on this mail. [Sorry for the traffic]
#! /bin/bash
# Copyright (c) 1995-2000 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.
#
# Author: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
# /etc/init.d/fbset
#
# and symbolic its link
#
# /usr/sbin/rcfbset
#
# System startup script for the nessus backend nessusd
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: FOO
# Required-Start: $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs
# Default-Start: 1 2 3 5
# Default-Stop: 0 6
# Description: Framebuffer setup
### END INIT INFO
# Source SuSE config
. /etc/rc.config
# Determine the base and follow a runlevel link name.
base=${0##*/}
link=${base#*[SK][0-9][0-9]}
# Force execution if not called by a runlevel directory.
#test $link = $base && START_FBSET=yes
#test "$START_FBSET" = yes || exit 0
test -z "$FB_MODULES" -a -z "$FBSET_PARAMS" && exit 0
FBSET_BIN=/usr/sbin/fbset
test ! -z "$FB_MODULES" -o -x $FBSET_BIN || exit 5
# Shell functions sourced from /etc/rc.status:
# rc_check check and set local and overall rc status
# rc_status check and set local and overall rc status
# rc_status -v ditto but be verbose in local rc status
# rc_status -v -r ditto and clear the local rc status
# rc_failed set local and overall rc status to failed
# rc_failed <num> set local and overall rc status to <num><num>
# rc_reset clear local rc status (overall remains)
# rc_exit exit appropriate to overall rc status
. /etc/rc.status
# First reset status of this service
rc_reset
# Return values acc. to LSB for all commands but status:
# 0 - success
# 1 - generic or unspecified error
# 2 - invalid or excess argument(s)
# 3 - unimplemented feature (e.g. "reload")
# 4 - insufficient privilege
# 5 - program is not installed
# 6 - program is not configured
# 7 - program is not running
#
# Note that starting an already running service, stopping
# or restarting a not-running service as well as the restart
# with force-reload (in case signalling is not supported) are
# considered a success.
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Framebuffer setup: "
## Start daemon with startproc(8). If this fails
## the echo return value is set appropriate.
if test ! -z "$FB_MODULES"; then
# $FB_MODULES needs parsing: It might contain several modules
# and module parameters. We identify params by the = sign.
unset mod modpar
for par in $FB_MODULES; do
case $par in
*=*)
modpar="$modpar $par"
;;
*)
if test ! -z "$mod"; then
echo -n "$mod "
modprobe $mod $modpar
rc_status
fi
unset modpar
mod=$par
;;
esac
done
echo -n "$mod "
modprobe $mod $modpar
rc_status
fi
if test ! -z "$FBSET_PARAMS"; then
if test -x $FBSET_BIN; then
mode=`echo $FBSET_PARAMS | sed -e 's/^-[^ ]*//' -e 's/ -[^
]*//g'`
echo -n "$mode "
$FBSET_BIN $FBSET_PARAMS
rc_status
else
echo -n "fbset not installed "
rc_failed 5
fi
fi
# Remember status and be verbose
rc_status -v
;;
stop)
# We don't unload the fb driver modules; this could be risky
# and will probably fail anyway
;;
try-restart)
## Stop the service and if this succeeds (i.e. the
## service was running before), start it again.
## Note: try-restart is not (yet) part of LSB (as of 0.7.5)
$0 status >/dev/null && $0 restart
# Remember status and be quiet
rc_status
;;
restart)
## Stop the service and regardless of whether it was
## running or not, start it again.
$0 start
# Remember status and be quiet
rc_status
;;
force-reload)
## Signal the daemon to reload its config. Most daemons
## do this on signal 1 (SIGHUP).
## If it does not support it, restart.
$0 try-restart
rc_status
;;
reload)
$0 try-restart
rc_status
;;
status)
echo -n "Checking for framebuffer setup: "
## Check status with checkproc(8), if process is running
## checkproc will return with exit status 0.
# Status has a slightly different for the status command:
# 0 - service running
# 1 - service dead, but /var/run/ pid file exists
# 2 - service dead, but /var/lock/ lock file exists
# 3 - service not running
if test ! -z "$FB_MODULES"; then
# $FB_MODULES needs parsing: It might contain several modules
# and module parameters. We identify params by the = sign.
for par in $FB_MODULES; do
case $par in
*=*)
;;
*)
if test ! -z "$par"; then
if test -z "`lsmod | grep $par`";
then echo -n '!'"$par "
rc_failed 3
else
echo -n "$par "
fi
fi
;;
esac
done
fi
if test -x $FBSET_BIN; then
mode=`$FBSET_BIN | grep -e "^mode" | sed 's/[^"]*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/'`
rc_status
echo -n "$mode "
fi
rc_status -v
;;
probe)
## Optional: Probe for the necessity of a reload,
## give out the argument which is required for a reload.
test -r /proc/uptime -a -x /bin/date -a ! -z "$FBSET_PARAMS" -a -x $FBSET_BIN
|| exit 0
boottm=$[`date -u +%s`-`cat /proc/uptime|sed 's/\([^\.]*\).*/\1/'`]
test $boottm -lt `date -r /etc/fb.modes -u +%s` -o $boottm -lt `date -r
$FBSET_BIN -u +%s` && echo reload
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0
{start|stop|status|try-restart|restart|force-reload|reload|probe}"
exit 1
;;
esac
rc_exit
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