chkconfig wokrs but service start says unknow service

[gkk]

I build a program that runs as a daemon, it works if I start it from command line.

But I want it to be running as a aservice.

I put binnarys in /usr/sbin

and a srcript to start it in /etc/init.d

chkconfig works, I can see my daemon in the list of services

but when I try service myservice start it says

service unknown


****************
I add this line here: the problem was that the script was not an excecutable scripts.
****************

here is the script

#!/bin/sh
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: serviciogk
# Required-Start: $network
# Required-Stop: $network
# Default-Start: 3 4 5
# Short-Description: nothing
# Description: some_daemon is nothing.
# Really, nothing.
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

DAEMON_NAME=serviciogk
DAEMON_PROCESS=serviciogk
DAEMON_BINARY=/usr/sbin/serviciogk
LOCK_FILE=/var/lock/subsys/$DAEMON_NAME
RETVAL=0

# default option, they can be overriden in /etc/sysconfig/$DAEMON_NAME
# of course, you can place what you want.
#OPTIONS=
#PORT=2000
# this file should be commented, with proper pointer to the doc, and you should use
# more than one line of option, if possible.
#[ -f /etc/sysconfig/$DAEMON_NAME ] && . /etc/sysconfig/$DAEMON_NAME

# here, you can do what you want with the option
start() {
# place the test here
# if [ -z "$SOME_VAR" ]; then
# echo "You need to set $SOME_VAR in /etc/sysconfig/$DAEMON_NAME"
# RETVAL=1
# return
# fi

if [ ! -f $LOCK_FILE ]; then
echo "Starting $DAEMON_NAME"
# use --user to run the daemon under the specified uid
#daemon $DAEMON_BINARY $OPTIONS -p $PORT
daemon $DAEMON_BINARY $OPTIONS
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch $LOCK_FILE
fi
}

stop() {
echo "Shutting down $DAEMON_NAME"
killproc $DAEMON_PROCESS
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f $LOCK_FILE
}

reload() {
echo "Reloading $DAEMON_NAME configuration"
killproc $DAEMON_PROCESS SIGHUP
RETVAL=$?
echo
}

status() {
status $DAEMON_PROCESS
RETVAL=$?
}

case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
status
;;
reload)
reload
;;
restart)
stop
start
;;
condrestart)
if [ -f $LOCK_FILE ]; then
stop
start
fi
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|condrestart|status}"
RETVAL=1
esac

exit $RETVAL

[PhillyFloyd]

did you do a chkconfig --add for the service ;-)

[gkk]

I have solved the problem. The script was not as runnable. I've changed and now it works fine.

[marko]

Notice that the service script you quoted will not work right with
chkconfig if the user does a:

chkconfig serviciogk on

because the top of the script didn't have the right formatting for
the runlevels (see the man page for chkconfig in the section
called RUNLEVEL FILES ). The start of the file should have something
like:

# chkconfig: 2345 20 80

So that if chkconfig serviciogk on is run, it will create the linkages in the
right places. In my example "on" would be runlevels 2,3,4,5 and start
priority index 20 and stop order index 80.

That might be ok if that's never going to
happen (ie chkconfig serviciogk on or chkconfig serviciogk off will
never be used) but it's a good idea in general.

Mark

[gkk]

Thank you Marko

I will check the man pages, and correct my script.