I have shoutcast server on my Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS Server (without X env.) I want to configure sc_serv to start every time when system boot. What is the best way to do that?
Solved Shoutcast (http://www.shoutcast.com/) is free internet radio broadcaster. It consist of these files Code: README.TXT sc_serv sc_serv.conf sc_serv.log sc_w3c.log So I found Howto for writing simple startup scripts - http://ubuntujourney.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/starting-a-program-at-boot/ and wrote one for simple start and stop shoutcast (sc_serv) and put it in /etc/init.d, after that Code: update-rc.d shoutcast defaults and the job was done. BUT the shoutcast is not designed to be run as a service, at boot time it wait for broadcaster application and by this way prevents the system to boot normally. So I removed it. I'll start shotcast by hand at every reboot.
I realize this post is well over a year old actually 2 years now, but just for people who need help, as this was the very first post i found while looking for auto starting a job/process. Please use with caution, my tests were done with Asterisk, a Voip gateway software, not shoutcast, a Music streaming software. Create a file such as this in your etc/init.d/ name it "shoutcast" without the quotes Code: /your/absolute/path/to/sc_serv & then issue the following commands in your /etc/init.d/ Code: chmod +x shoutcast update-rc.d shoutcast defaults This will fork your process off as a sub of root, you can also, put nuhup in front of it, to allow it to create an orphaned process independent of any system resource/user. This should be the basis for any program you compile by source or install from an other methods not done through the package manager.
