On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 07:20:43PM +0200, Simone Saravalli wrote:
> Hi all, this is my first post in this mailing list, I appreciate very
> much gnump3d, so I've decided to install it in my personal home
> server. Perhaps, this server isn't always up, in fact, during the
> night I stop it (the computer is too closer to my parents'bedroom
> so...). So every time I start it, I have to do a gnump3d --fast from
> the command line. In my opinion, for computers always up, or for users
> that don't want to type gnump3d --fast to start the server from the
> command line every time, a good idea is to create a demon and then to
> run it automatically (for example a simple bash script that can be put
> in /etc/initd/, for example). I don't know if this is a good idea so,
> hints, opinions?
It's a good idea. The Debian package does exactly this, there's
an init.d script which reads the contents of the file /etc/default/gnump3d
(if it exists).
This allows you to specify additional arguments to be used when starting
it. By default I setup the package so that users get '--fast' appended
by default.
The script is simple:
/etc/default/gnump3d:
STARTUPOPTIONS=--fast
/etc/init.d/gnump3d
. /etc/default/gnump3d
case "$1" in
start)
start-stop-daemon --background --start --quiet /usr/bin/gnump3d
$STARTUPOPTS
;;
stop)
...
etc.
Steve
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