Hi,

I've never used HPUX before but am fairly strong in various Linux
distros and have some Solaris experience also.

I'll be doing some installations on an HPUX system sometime next week,
and I'm curious if there's anything I should particular careful about?

I will need to add a startup script, for RedHat Linux this is in
/etc/init.d and I link from the rc3 runlevel directory. Is the approach
somewhat the same on HPUX?

Thanks,

Morten

In article <1114092776.536270.295380@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups .com>,
usenet@kikobu.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've never used HPUX before but am fairly strong in various Linux
> distros and have some Solaris experience also.
>
> I'll be doing some installations on an HPUX system sometime next week,
> and I'm curious if there's anything I should particular careful about?
>
> I will need to add a startup script, for RedHat Linux this is in
> /etc/init.d and I link from the rc3 runlevel directory. Is the approach
> somewhat the same on HPUX?
>

On HP-UX, the init directory is /sbin/init.d and the run-level links are
/sbin/rcN.d (i.e., /sbin/rc3.d). Configuration for init scripts goes in
/etc/rc.config.d as opposed to /etc/sysconfig on Linux.

Also, HP-UX runs "thru" run-levels, whereas Linux "jumps" run-levels. In other
words, to get to run-level 3, you 1st go thru run-level 1 and 2...

Otherwise, its pretty similar.

Kevin
--
Unix Guy Consulting, LLC
Unix and Linux Automation, Shell, Perl and CGI scripting
http://www.unix-guy.com

Kevin Collins wrote:
> On HP-UX, the init directory is /sbin/init.d and the run-level links are
> /sbin/rcN.d (i.e., /sbin/rc3.d). Configuration for init scripts goes in
> /etc/rc.config.d as opposed to /etc/sysconfig on Linux.
>
> Also, HP-UX runs "thru" run-levels, whereas Linux "jumps" run-levels. In other
> words, to get to run-level 3, you 1st go thru run-level 1 and 2...
>
> Otherwise, its pretty similar.
>
> Kevin

Also, there is a template file which you can base your new script on.
/sbin/init.d/template.