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INSSERV

NAME

insserv − Enable an installed system init script

SYNOPSIS

insserv [−v] [−c <config>] [−p <path>] [−d] [−f] [[/]path/to/init.d/]script ...

insserv [−v] [−c <config>] [−p <path>] [[/]path/to/init.d/]script[,start=<lvl1>[,<lvl2> ...],stop=<lvl1>[,<lvl2> ...]]

insserv [−v] [−c <config>] [−p <path>] −r [−d] [−f] [[/]path/to/init.d/]script ...

insserv −h

DESCRIPTION

insserv enables an installed system init script (‘boot script’) by reading the comment header of the script, e.g.:

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: boot_facility_1 [ boot_facility_2 ...]
# Required-Start: boot_facility_1 [ boot_facility_2 ...]
# Required-Stop: boot_facility_1 [ boot_facility_2 ...]
# Should-Start: boot_facility_1 [ boot_facility_2 ...]
# Should-Stop: boot_facility_1 [ boot_facility_2 ...]
# X-Start-Before: boot_facility_1 [ boot_facility_2 ...]
# X-Stop-After: boot_facility_1 [ boot_facility_2 ...]
# Default-Start: run_level_1 [ run_level_2 ...]
# Default-Stop: run_level_1 [ run_level_2 ...]
# Short-Description: single_line_description
# Description: multiline_description
### END INIT INFO

and calculating the dependencies between all scripts. Please be aware that the line

# Required-Stop: boot_facility_1 [ boot_facility_2 ...]

declares facilities which must be available during shutdown of the service declared in the Provides tag. Same holds true for

# Should-Stop: boot_facility_1 [ boot_facility_2 ...]

which declares facilities which should be available during shutdown of the service declared in the Provides tag. In both cases the script system should avoid stopping services which are declared by these two Stop tags until the script including these tags is stopped.

The optional X−Start−Before keyword implies that the script using this keyword should be started before the specified service names. Wereas the optional X−Stop−After keyword implies that the script using this keyword should be stopped after the specified service names. Both implies that those services now depend on the specifying script. With known dependencies and runlevel(s) insserv sets and reorders the corresponding symbolic links of the concerned runlevels directories. Known runlevels are:

used for System halt
used for single user mode
used for local multiuser without remote network
used for full multiuser with network
reserved for local use
used for full multiuser with network and xdm
used for System reboot
used during boot before any other runlevel

insserv scans for System Facilities in the configuration file /etc/insserv.conf and each file in the directory /etc/insserv.conf.d/. Each line which begins with $ and a following name defines a system facility accordingly to the Linux Standard Base Specification (LSB), All names followed by such a system facility will declare the required dependencies of the facility. Here is an example for /etc/insserv.conf:

# All local filesystems are mounted
# (done during boot phase)
$local_fs boot

# Low level networking
$network network route

# Named is operational
$named named

# All remote filesystems are mounted
# (in some cases /usr may be remote).
$remote_fs $local_fs nfs

# System logger is operational
$syslog syslog

# All network daemons are running
$netdaemons portmap inetd

# Services which need to be interactive
<interactive> boot.crypto

Names starting with a ‘+’ sign are marked as optional. If the service with the name after the plus sign is available it will be used, if not available it is ignored silently. Words beginning with < and ending with > are keywords. Currently <interactive> is the only know keyword for marking a service as an interactive one, e.g. a service which requires a passphrase or password input during boot or runlevel change.

Beside the defined System Facilities in the configuration file /etc/insserv.conf, insserv also knows the special facility $all. This facility indicates that a service should be inserted at the end of all services. Clearly all services using this facility will be grouped into one starting order.

OPTIONS

Currently there exists nine options for insserv.
−v
−−verbose

Write out what is currently going on.

−c <config>−−config <config>

Specify path to the insserv.conf file and the insserv.conf.d directory. Useful for testing.

−o <path>−−override <path>

Path to replace existing LSB comment headers with the comment headers found in this path (default path is /etc/insserv/overrides/).

−p <path>−−path <path>

Specify path to init.d directory. Useful for testing.

−n−−dryrun

Do not update symlinks.

−r−−remove

Remove the listed scripts from all runlevels.

−d−−default

Use default runlevels a defined in the scripts. This may restore an edited runlevel link scheme.

−f−−force

Ignore if a required service is missed.

−h−−help

Print out short usage message.

But you may use the argument syntax described in the following section.

ARGUMENTS

[[/]path/to/init.d/]

Relative or absolute path to the init scripts base directory. This defaults to /etc/init.d/ in compliance with the LSB specification. In this case insserv does not add or remove a script to the runlevels declared in the script headers, but may re−order the runlevels if the order of the currently enabled scripts has changed (see option −d). Note that if a relative path is used insserv has to be called from the root directory.

[[/]path/to/init.d/]script ...

List of scripts which have to be added to the runlevels. If a path is used it should point to the absolute or relative location of the boot scripts. insserv checks for the existence of these scripts. For the runlevels the information found in the script is used.

[[/]path/to/init.d/]script[,start=<lvl1>[,<lvl2>]] ...

List of scripts which have to be added to the specified runlevels to be started with. You may use this extension to override the default values for start and stop runlevels of the script. Note that <lvl1><lvl2>, ... are the known runlevels explained above. The extension ,stop=<lvl1>[,<lvl2>]] is possible is also possible.

−r [[/]path/to/init.d/]script ...

List of scripts which should be removed from the runlevels. If a path is used it should point to the absolute or relative location of the boot scripts. insserv checks for the existence of these scripts.

OVERRIDES

Beside using the extensions ,start=<lvl1>[,<lvl2>]] and ,stop=<lvl1>[,<lvl2>]] it is possible to use override files replace a LSB comment header or simple provide a missing LSB comment header. This can be done by placing a file with the new LSB comment header using the same name as the boot or init script in the directory /etc/insserv/overrides/.

EXIT CODES

The exit codes have the following conditions:

0

Service was successfully installed or removed

1

Service was not installed or removed

NOTE

Please be aware that the following patterns of boot script file names will be not accepted by insserv:

*.dpkg*
*.rpm*
*.ba*
*.old
*.new
*.org
*.orig
*.save
*.swp
*.core
*~

with the wildcard character *. Beside this all boot script file names beginning with one of the following characters

$.#%_+-\*[]^:()~

will be ignored.

BUGS

Boot script sometimes misses comments.

FILES

/etc/insserv.conf

configuration file for insserv which defines the LSB System Facilities.

/etc/insserv.conf.d/

directory for further configuration files for declaring LSB System Facilities.

/etc/insserv/overrides/

path to replace existing LSB comment headers with the comment headers found in this path.

/etc/init.d/

path to the init script base directory as required by the Linux Standard Base Specification (LSB).

/etc/init.d/.depend.boot,
/etc/init.d/.depend.start
,
/etc/init.d/.depend.stop

The make(1) like dependency files produced by insserv for booting, starting, and stopping with the help of startpar(8).

SEE ALSO

init(7), startpar(8).

COPYRIGHT

2000−2008 Werner Fink,
2000−2003 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany,
2007 SuSE Linux Products GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.
2008 SuSE Linux Products GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.

AUTHOR

Werner Fink <feedback AT suse DOT de>

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