[plug] chkconfig + dhcpd

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Earnshaw, Mike wrote:

> Just downloaded the latest(?) dhcp tarball from isc.org. It compiled and
> installed OK. I am having a few problems getting chkconfig to add the
> daemon. If I use chkconfig --add /usr/sbin/dhcpd it reports error
> reading information on service (which I would kind of expect since this
> is the binary) but I get the same message when I point chkconfig to the
> directory I used for the untar etc.

chkconfig doesn't work on binaries.   chkconfig is designed to work in
conjunction with the SysV startup system.

What you need to do is make s shell script that can start and stop the dhcp
daemon.

---
#!/bin/sh

# chkconfig: 345 65 35

case "$1" in
	start)
			/usr/sbin/dhcpd
			;;
	stop)
			killall dhcpd
			;;
	*)
			echo dhcpd {start|stop}
esac
---

you that as a template .... The comment line with chkconfig is the key.

(
After chkconfig there are 3 numbers:
345 == start at Run levels 3, 4 and 5.
65  == what "priority to start it at"  .... 65 is GUARANTEED to start after ALL
       scripts with a priority 64 or lower.  Any scripts with a priority of 66 
       or higher will start AFTER this script.
35  == what priority to stop at (general rule is 100-the start value.
)
place that script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/  call it dhcpd  make it executable.

then run 
chkconfig --del dhcpd             # Just to make sure you know how things are. 
chkconfig --add dhcpd             # Now add it.
chkconfig --list dhcpd            # Check it going to start when you think.

Next time you reboot the system dhcpd should start up.  To start it this time.
run /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd start
 
> I can not seem to work out where to locate the information on service
> for this. Any pointers please?

HTH

Yours Tony.

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