Help with restarting of application with reboot of AIX server

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

We have hosted our application on AIX server. The problem is that we have to start our application manually once the server is rebooted. Please guide me in writing a script that does this job automatically with the re-start of the server. I'm looking for something like windows services in unix.

Thanks in advance!
Himanshu

2

put your start/stop script under /etc/rc2.d

1 Like
3

Hi.

You have a couple of options, really.

Either use /etc/inittab, or for more control, put your start / stop script in /etc/init.d, and link your S and K scripts from /etc/rc2.d to the script.

Typically, a basic init.d script will look something like:

#!/bin/ksh

##################################################
# name: myScript.ksh
# purpose: Script to stop and start my application
##################################################

case "$1" in
start )
        :  commands used to start your application
        ;;
stop )
        :  commands used to stop your application
        ;;
* )
        echo "Usage: $0 (start | stop)"
        exit 1
esac

Then:

# ln -s /etc/init.d/myScript.ksh /etc/rc2.d/S99myScript
# ln -s /etc/init.d/myScript.ksh /etc/rc2.d/K01myScript

where S99 and K01 are the sequence during a startup / shutdown that your application will be started and stopped in relation to other S and K scripts in rc2.d.

1 Like