[ale] RedHat chkconfig & init scripts

[jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 15:21 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Recently I wrote a start/stop init script for some RHEL AS 3 boxes
> (modeled on an existing one).   I used chkconfig to turn it ON in my
> multiuser run levels.   It worked like a charm on startup to start the
> application (Oracle Middle Tier).   It also worked fine from command
> line to stop the application.

Something else that popped into my mind is to check what position your
shutdown script is set to execute in.  (chkconfig --list, IIRC).  What
you want to make sure of is that your script shutdown before any of it's
dependencies do (i.e. mount points, network, etc.)

-Jim P.