Facts 7.8 Install on RedHat Linux 6.6 and starting services

sabeen-kaleem

I am trying to find out how and where to place my startup commands for Pxphost, APistart and unform. RHEL 6.6 indicates that we should not use /etc/inittab. I have tried rc.local and rc.override. Either the placement of the commands or my command syntax causes the system to stall on a reboot and I have to go into recovery mode, comment out my commands and restart. This doesn't work too well for the customer! Any advice as well as syntax structure would be greatly appreciated.

Deepak Mehra

Hi Wendy,

We have been using rc.local on our RHEL6 deployments -- but in order to do this, any process launched via rc.local must background itself or the system will hang on boot, waiting for the process to finish.

We do this by modifying the 'pxphost' script on the last line that executes pxplus:

Old line:
${FHOMEDIR}/pvx/pxplus "*plus/cs/host" -arg {SOCKET} /dev/null 2>/dev/null

New line:
nohup ${FHOMEDIR}/pvx/pxplus "*plus/cs/host" -arg {SOCKET} /dev/null 2>/dev/null &

Basically: add the "nohup " at the beginning and the " &" ampersand at the end. This will cause the process to run in the background and will allow the system to continue its normal boot-up process.