- Create a script and place in
/etc/init.d
(e.g/etc/init.d/myscript
). The script should have the following format:
start() { # code to start app comes here # example: daemon program_name & } stop() { # code to stop app comes here # example: killproc program_name } case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart) stop start ;; status) # code to check status of app comes here # example: status program_name ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}" esac exit 0
Later of this, ypu need ad executable permissions to the file: chmod +x myscript
The format is pretty standard and you can view existing scripts in
/etc/init.d
. You can then use the script like so /etc/init.d/myscript start