Run my script as a daemon ?

[miljbee]

Hello,

I have written a script which should run permanently. Could you give me some advices on how to set my AC68U to start it up at boot ?

Ideally, I would like to be able to manage it with something like
service myscript start/stop/restart.

Thanks for your help.

 

[kvic]

One way is to install Entware (which is good to have by itself anyway).

Then make good use of init.d in Entware. Look at /opt/etc/init.d. Depends on your scripts, most likely you'll need helpers (which available from Entware as well). I've been doing this for years...happily.

 

[Steffe]

Or just make your script make use of lockfile in order for you to stop/restart process. It's pretty simple. Something like https://github.com/Meliox/FTPauto/blob/master/utils/networkmonitor.sh should be doable. And of cause add it to the startup scripts: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/User-scripts

 

[miljbee]

One way is to install Entware (which is good to have by itself anyway).

Then make good use of init.d in Entware. Look at /opt/etc/init.d. Depends on your scripts, most likely you'll need helpers (which available from Entware as well). I've been doing this for years...happily.

Could you tell me which helpers I should consider ?

 

[miljbee]

Or just make your script make use of lockfile in order for you to stop/restart process. It's pretty simple. Something like https://github.com/Meliox/FTPauto/blob/master/utils/networkmonitor.sh should be doable. And of cause add it to the startup scripts: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/User-scripts

Thanks for this excellent exemple. I will have a deeper look, but I thought I could achieve the same result with init.d

 

[kvic]

Could you tell me which helpers I should consider ?

You can start with "daemonize" - a package available from Entware. "daemonize myscript.sh" as command line to run your script as daemon. For the init.d script, simply copy from an existing one. Then rename and adapt..