/sbin/service increase wait time before fail?

[michael12345]

I have a start and stop script registered with chkconfig for a fuse mounted drive. I can /sbin/service scriptname start
and
/sbin/service scriptname stop
with no issues.

The stop script unmounts the drives and then stops the service with a function to wait until the pidof service is gone.

My drives are showing up as dirty on reboot, which should mean that my script that functions normally in cli, is running out of time and possible being ignored by service after a certain wait period when shutdown -h now is issued.

Sytem is a remote server so I can not view the output during shutdown.

How can I increase the wait before /sbin/service issues a [FAILED] if that is the case on shutdown?

update: the startup script runs , however the shutdown script does not...the script does work though with the service scriptname stop command

[michael12345]

Solved, started my script by copying anacron which was a mistake, it manages itself. I needed to touch the script in /var/lock/subsys and remove it when stopping.

[diamond_ramsey]

michael12345, thank you for your posts.

Originally Posted by michael12345

Solved, started my script by copying anacron which was a mistake, it manages itself. I needed to touch the script in /var/lock/subsys and remove it when stopping.

Most excellent!!!

[scottro]

Thanks for coming back and posting the solution. Just for the newcomers, would you mind going into a bit more detail? (It might save some of them from making similar errors.)

If you don't have time to do so, of course, that's fine too.

[michael12345]

Originally Posted by scottro

Thanks for coming back and posting the solution. Just for the newcomers, would you mind going into a bit more detail? (It might save some of them from making similar errors.)

If you don't have time to do so, of course, that's fine too.

I needed a script to start and stop a daemon on startup. Normally I just gank a script from elsewhere that does something similar and go from there. Doing so should normally be fine with /etc/init.d/xxxx

However anacron the script i started with manages itself so it caused some errors.

specifically the script I had, needed to have

touch $LOCKFILE in the start portion and
rm $LOCKFILE in the stop portion

LOCKFILE is defined as
LOCKFILE=/var/lock/susbsys/$prog

also, when you make changes to your script in /etc/init.d you need to or at least I needed to chkconfig --del script name;
change script
chkconfig --add script name; to update the symlinked files in /etc/rc*/rc*

[scottro]

Thanks much. Actually, I put my scripts in /etc/rc.d/local, so I didn't know that about chkconfig and having to delete. Thanks.