MyDNS CentOS start on Reboot

[kaptk2]

When following the MyDNS howto I get to this step:

On Fedora or RedHat, you would run this:

chkconfig --levels 235 mydns on

Upon running that command I get this error message:
service mydns does not support chkconfig

I am running CentOS 4.2 any hints on how to get it so that on a reboot MyDNS will come up.

[falko]

Is /etc/init.d/mydns executable?

[kaptk2]

Yes it is.

# ls -li /etc/init.d/mydns
1378476 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 775 Mar 6 11:21 /etc/init.d/mydns

[falko]

Ok, can you post the first lines of any other script in /etc/init.d? I guess you have to add something similar to /etc7init.d/mydns so that the chkconfig program knows what to do.

[kaptk2]

After 2 days of trying to get this to work I still can't figure out what is missing. Here is the /etc/init.d/snmpd script in it entirity. Maybe you can see what I am missing. If you want a diffrent file let me know. SNMP seemed the easist for me to understand.

#!/bin/bash
# ucd-snmp init file for snmpd
#
# chkconfig: - 50 50
# description: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Daemon
#
# processname: /usr/sbin/snmpd
# config: /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
# config: /usr/share/snmp/snmpd.conf
# pidfile: /var/run/snmpd

# source function library
. /etc/init.d/functions

OPTIONS="-Lsd -Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd -a"
RETVAL=0
prog="snmpd"

start() {
        echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
        if [ $UID -ne 0 ]; then
                RETVAL=1
                failure
        else
                daemon /usr/sbin/snmpd $OPTIONS
                RETVAL=$?
                [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/snmpd
        fi;
        echo
        return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
        echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
        if [ $UID -ne 0 ]; then
                RETVAL=1
                failure
        else
                killproc /usr/sbin/snmpd
                RETVAL=$?
                [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/snmpd
        fi;
        echo
        return $RETVAL
}

reload(){
        echo -n $"Reloading $prog: "
        killproc /usr/sbin/snmpd -HUP
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        return $RETVAL
}

restart(){
        stop
        start
}

condrestart(){
    [ -e /var/lock/subsys/snmpd ] && restart
    return 0
}

case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  restart)
        restart
        ;;
  reload)
        reload
        ;;
  condrestart)
        condrestart
        ;;
  status)
        status snmpd
        RETVAL=$?
        ;;
  *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|reload}"
        RETVAL=1
esac

exit $RETVAL

[falko]

Please put

# chkconfig: - 21 22

somewhere at the beginning of /etc/init.d/mydns and run

chkconfig --levels 235 mydns on

[kaptk2]

No good. I am still getting this error message:
service mydns does not support chkconfig

Here is how my file looks now. It is snipped but the rest is what is on the website. Any more hints?

#! /bin/sh
#
#
# chkconfig: - 21 22
#
# mydns         Start the MyDNS server
#
# Author:       Falko Timme <ft@falkotimme.com>.
#

set -e

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
NAME=mydns
DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/$NAME
DESC="DNS server"

[falko]

You can create the needed system startup links for mydns by hand:

ln -s /etc/init.d/mydns /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S21mydns
ln -s /etc/init.d/mydns /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S21mydns
ln -s /etc/init.d/mydns /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S21mydns

[kaptk2]

I finally fixed it so that it works with out manually adding anything. I edited the init script to look like this. And it works now with the instructions provided. It also now show up when you run ntsysv. Hope this helps somebody else in the future.

#! /bin/sh
# mydns         Start the MyDNS server
# Author:       Falko Timme <ft@falkotimme.com>.

# Comments to support chkconfig on RedHat Linux
# chkconfig: 235 90 90
# description: A DNS server that runs off of a MySQL backend

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
NAME=mydns
DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/$NAME
DESC="DNS server"

SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

# Gracefully exit if the package has been removed.
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
        $DAEMON --background
        echo "."
        ;;
  stop)
        echo "Stopping $DESC: $NAME."
        kill -9 `pidof $NAME` &> /dev/null
        ;;
  restart)
        echo "Restarting $DESC: $NAME."
        $0 stop && sleep 1
        $0 start
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0