[Asterisk-Users] Automatic start with SuSe linux

[James Oakley]

On Wednesday 17 August 2005 3:04 pm, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:27:08PM +0300, laine.marko at porilainen.com wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I'm trying to start asterisk at boottime. Since SuSe
>
> It was SuSE (the old way). Now it is SUSE. Was it ever SuSe?

Nope, but it was S.u.S.E. before SuSE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuSE#History


> > has no rc.local like in
> > Redhat linux, I need asterisk starting script to /etc/init.d/rc3.d
> > -directory (I assume it is like that if i want automated asterisk
> > startup). Do you have any experience how this is implemented in SuSe, and
> > if you have some useful script for starting asterisk, I would be very, i
> > mean VERY pleased?
> >
> > Thank you all in advance!
>
> One nice thing SuSE has and most other distros lack is service
> dependencies: you can define in your init.d script which services your
> script needs and let insserv sert out the load order.
>
> For instance, asterisk needs to load after zaptel. The flash operator
> panel's daemon needs to start after asterisk.
>
> Also, if you install from RPMs, note that the init.d dir of SuSE is
> actually different than the one od RH. Or at least it was last time I
> looked.

Everything you just described is part of the Linux Standard Base:

http://www.linuxbase.org/

SUSE was the first to truly embrace the specification, but Red Hat still only 
supports the bare minimum, which is why chkconfig still sucks.

-- 
James Oakley
Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd.
joakley at solutioninc.com
http://www.solutioninc.com

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