Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 232531
dbora not running when it is enabled as a K-script
Last modified: 2014-03-16 23:06:01 EDT
Description of problem: When I change run levels I have an oracle initscript which seems to work when it is in startup mode (S91dbora) but when I change to a different runlevel where it should be shutting down (K19dbora) it does not run the initscript. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 4.3 initscript- How reproducible: change from runlevel 3 to runlevel 2 Steps to Reproduce: 1. init 2 2. 3. Actual results: It seems to ignore this script (and there are other instances of this as well), and just do some K-scripts but no others. Expected results: Databases should be shutdown. Additional info: I have chkconfig --del gpm and copied the gpm script to dbora and then chkconfig --add dbora and used this and it suffers from the same problem. Any time it seems to execute the K-scripts it doesnt seem to know this exists (no message on the screen about shutting down service).
Created attachment 150184 [details] initscript for oracle (dbora)
initscripts version is 7.93.24.EL-1.1
You don't touch a lock file in /var/lock/subsys that matches the script name when you start, so it is not recorded as actually started. See some of the other init scripts for examples.
OK figured out the problem. I need to add a file into the /var/lock/subsys/<scriptname> (and delete) it before changing runlevels will execute the script on shutdown. As I have never seen this before it would be nice to document this somewhere as it was only through trial and error that I finally figured it out.