[Xymon] Starting Xymon via init script no environment variables

[Michael Beatty]

Linux SuSE.


#!/bin/bash
#
# xymon      This starts and stops xymon stuff
#
# Author:  Michael Beatty
#
# description: starts/stops Xymon
#
# /etc/init.d/xymon
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:       xymon
# Required-Start: $local_fs network
# Should-Start: mqm
# Required-Stop:
# Should-Stop:
# Default-Start:
# Default-Stop:
# Description:    Xymon client custom startup
### END INIT INFO

# Store variables
. /etc/sysconfig/posvars
# Source SuSE config
. /etc/sysconfig/boot

# Shell functions sourced from /etc/rc.status:
#      rc_check         check and set local and overall rc status
#      rc_status        check and set local and overall rc status
#      rc_status -v     ditto but be verbose in local rc status
#      rc_status -v -r  ditto and clear the local rc status
#      rc_failed        set local and overall rc status to failed
#      rc_failed <num>  set local and overall rc status to <num><num>
#      rc_reset         clear local rc status (overall remains)
#      rc_exit          exit appropriate to overall rc status
. /etc/rc.status

# First reset status of this service
rc_reset

# Return values acc. to LSB for all commands but status:
# 0 - success
# 1 - generic or unspecified error
# 2 - invalid or excess argument(s)
# 3 - unimplemented feature (e.g. "reload")
# 4 - insufficient privilege
# 5 - program is not installed
# 6 - program is not configured
# 7 - program is not running
#
# Note that starting an already running service, stopping
# or restarting a not-running service as well as the restart
# with force-reload (in case signalling is not supported) are
# considered a success.


RETVAL=0


case "$1" in
     start)
         echo "Staring Xymon Client QMGR = $QMGR"
          /usr/bin/sudo -u xymon /home/xymon/client/runclient.sh start
         rc_status
         ;;
     stop)
         echo "Stopping Xymon Client QMGR = $QMGR"
         /usr/bin/sudo -u xymon /home/xymon/client/runclient.sh stop
               rc_status
         ;;
     restart)
         /usr/bin/sudo -u xymon /home/xymon/client/runclient.sh restart
         rc_status -v
         ;;
     status)
         /usr/bin/sudo -u xymon /home/xymon/client/runclient.sh status
         rc_status
         ;;
     *)
         echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
         exit 1
         ;;
esac
rc_exit 0




Michael Beatty

On 01/15/2013 08:03 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
> What OS?  Can you show the init script?
>
>
>
> On 16 January 2013 06:44, Michael Beatty <Michael.Beatty at sherwin.com 
> <mailto:Michael.Beatty at sherwin.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've got an init script that is starting up the xymon client. It
>     starts, and runs, however it doesn't appear to have any access to
>     any environment variables.  If I restart the client from a shell,
>     it takes off and runs fine.  I've got echo statements in the init
>     script to display some of the environment variables I need, and
>     they are displaying fine at boot time.  It just seems that xymon
>     doesn't have access to them when it is running.  What has me
>     really confused is that I'm even exporting the variable from a
>     file directly from the xymon script.
>
>     For example, in the init script, I 'echo $HOST'  The host name
>     shows up in the log
>     I have a perl script that clientlaunch calls, I have a variable
>     "my $host = $ENV{"HOST"}.
>
>     I am printing the "HOST" variable out to the log file when the
>     script runs.  If I start the xymon client from a shell, the HOST
>     variable prints out.  However, it doesn't print out (just a blank)
>     if the xymon client starts via the init script.
>
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Michael Beatty
>
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