[gentoo-user] How to write an init.d script

[Matt Neimeyer]

Hey All,

The box I'm running Gentoo on came with Redhat 7 (something) on it. The reason this matters is that it has an LCD panel on the front that displayed lots of useful information (like uptime, memory usage, etc) and some buttons that let you, among other things, shut down the computer. I've got qmail running on the box and it's going to be moving to a colo facility. Now the Redhat install had an init script and a daemon (binary only) and some other tools. On an identical box that I installed Redhat 8 on (for someone else) I was able to transplant those binaries and scripts and everything worked the way it should.

So the question is... what's the likelihood that I can run those binaries on Gentoo without corrupting anything? And how would I rewrite the init script so that I can run it on Gentoo?

Thanks!

Matt

P.S. I've already tried to identify the hardware with no luck but if someone knows what the LCD unit is that Gallentry installed on their GW500 boxes and a better / more direct way to control it...

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