rc
We provide each of our VPS Administrators with the ability to
automatically start daemons (server processes or programs initiated at boot
time that waits in the background until its service is required) at system
startup time. This service insures that important daemons that you rely
on are restarted when a server is taken down and rebooted after scheduled
maintenance.
To take advantage of this feature, you just add the programs you would
like to run at system startup to your ~/etc/rc file. You can either
create this file locally on your local computer and upload it to your
Virtual Server (in ASCII mode), or you can edit the file on your Virtual
Server using your favorite UNIX editor such as pico or vi.
The file format is quite simple. Lines that begin with the "#" character
are considered to be comments and are ignored. All other lines are executed
with /bin/sh, or in other words, are executed exactly as if you
typed the command at a command prompt.
For example, multimedia streaming software RealServer
relies on a server side daemon or server in order to operate successfully.
If you have installed the RealServer software package on your Virtual
Server you will want to add appropriate lines to your Server's ~/etc/rc
file to insure that these daemons are restarted at system startup time.
The command to include in the ~/etc/rc file for this software package
is:
RealServer
~/usr/local/pnserver-VERSION/bin/pnserver ~/usr/local/pnserver-VERSION/server.cfg
Replace VERSION with the version number of your RealServer software.
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