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I am struggling to get Hiawatha running under Ubuntu.

I need to have the server startup at boot time.

I seem to have successfully built the program, and I believe that I have correctly edited the startup script, which currently resides in /etc/init.d

My problem is that I need the server to startup upon reboot, (thus without a user logged in).

I seem to need to run the script as root (sudo /etc.init.d/hiawatha) in order to get the server started.

Is there something I am missing here? It should be possible to start the server as a service under Ubuntu upon reboot, shouldn't it? Just for good measure I will admit to having almost zero experience with Linux, and have only just installed Ubuntu 7.04 (OK 6.10 updated to 7.04 without problem).

Do I need a symlink in one of the rcX.d folders? and if so, which one? All of them for good measure?

Can anyone who has successfully installed Hiawatha under UBNTu lend a hand?

Thanks
Mal

In Debian, you can use the program 'rcconf' to define which programs should be started during boottime. Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, I think it will be available for Ubuntu as well. Maybe you have to install it first: apt-get install rcconf. rcconf takes care of the softlinks in the /etc/rc.X/ directories. Let me know if this solves your problem.

Hiawatha will only appear in the rcconf program, if a script called 'hiawatha' is present in /etc/init.d. Use the script extra/hiawatha inside the Hiawatha source tarball for this. It looks like you've already done that.

A second thing you can do is instead of typing 'make' in the Hiawatha source directory, use 'make deb'. This will create a .deb file which you can install via dpkg -i <.deb file>. This will automaticly take care of the boot issue. I think this is the best method to install Hiawatha under Ubuntu.

Sorry, no change.

There are symlinks created for hiawatha, but the server still needs me to start it.

Have you tried the 'make deb' solution? Remove the source directory and re-unzip the source tarball. Go to the created directory and use:

./configure
make deb

In a directory below, a .deb file should be present then. Install it via dpkg -i <.deb file>. Because that works for Debian, it should work for Ubuntu.

Thanks for the help. Between yourself and the Ubuntu forum I have managed to solve the problem.

I needed to specifically point to the wigwam executable, and in the start_hiawatha function.

function start_hiawatha {
	if [ -f ${PIDFILE} ]; then
		echo -e ${YELLOW}"Hiawatha is already running"${NORMAL}
	else
		/usr/local/sbin/wigwam -q
		result=$?

This even though the containing folder is in my PATH statement

PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin"

With this change the server starts as required.

Thanks for the help.
Mal

Thanks for letting me know. I've changed the start/stop script so this won't be a problem in the future.

Please, let me know what you think of Hiawatha. Things you like and things you don't like. So I can improve Hiawatha.