Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 13:23:08 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Educatee" <educatee2001@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make a script recognized "stop" Message-ID: <15090.62348.655622.15519@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <114228913@toto.iv>
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Educatee <educatee2001@yahoo.com> types: > I have put a few line to run http-gw in a script file http-gw.sh: > > ------------------- > #!/bin/sh > /usr/local/libexec/http-gw -daemon 3210 > echo -n 'http-gw started ok' > ------------------- > > How could I make it recognized the stop signal. As everytime when I reboot > my machine using > > shutdown -r now > > I was prompt that this script does not recognized the stop and was > recommended to do so. Can you please help me? Thanks. The skeleton to use is: case $1 in start) # Code to run at system startup time. ;; stop) # Code to run at system shutdown time ;; *) echo "usage: `basename $0` (start|stop)" >&2 exit 64 ;; esac > By the way, I am very new to FreeBSD and will like to learn how to write > script. Can you please recommend some URL or books. Thanks. Well, I like the K&P's "Unix Programming Environment", but it's a bit dated. -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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