Hello,

I am trying to migrate a respawn mechanism in CentOS5 to CentOS6. In CentOS5, I had a 'respawn' event in /etc/inittab pointing directly to my script which launched a java process (if script died (caused by death of java process), script got autorestarted). In CentOS6, I understand that I must do this differently. Seems like I have to use Upstart.

After reading some posts on the web, I created the following file: /etc/init/MIL.conf.

Inside of this file I have:

#MIL starter

start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]

respawn

cd /home/foo/MIL
exec java -jar MIL1.6.jar -port 10005

However when I try to launch this script using:
# initctl start MIL

I get...

initctl: Unknown job: MIL


Any advice on the specific problem? More generally?

Don't you need "script" and "end script" around the commands you want to run?

script

cd /home/foo/MIL
exec java -jar MIL1.6.jar -port 10005

end script

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Rgds
Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

sweh,

Yes, that did it!

Thank you very much.