Contributions - Init scripts, launchers, ...

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 2:54 pm

Hi everybody,

I'm using gentoo on my 24/7 linux server and made this init script so I can run kaid the way the gentoo god intended:

This is for pre-7.0.0.3 kaid versions:

Code:

#!/sbin/runscript
# Kaid script, 21 october 2004, A. Loermans

depend() {
need net
}

start() {
ebegin "Starting kaid"
/opt/kaid/kaid /etc/kaid.conf > /var/log/kaid.log &
eend $?
}

stop() {
ebegin "Stopping kaid"
killall -9 kaid
eend $?
}

For 7.0.0.3 and later parameters have changed, so use this if you have kaid >= 7.0.0.3

Code:

#!/sbin/runscript
# Kaid script, 10 december 2004, A. Loermans

depend() {
need net
}

start() {
ebegin "Starting kaid"
/opt/kaid/kaid -c /etc/kaid.conf -d
# logging doesn't seem to be working, so we just fork it without logging
eend $?
}

stop() {
ebegin "Stopping kaid"
killall -9 kaid
eend $?
}

Just copy and paste the above code into a file named 'kaid' and drop that in your /etc/init.d directory. Make sure it is executeable

Code:

# chmod +x /etc/init.d/kaid

and Bob's your uncle

A couple of notes:

Have fun and see you online, my x-link tag is caustics

JohnDoe aka Caustics aka Arjan Loermans

[edit] added kaid 7.0.0.3 support, without logging, this seems broken

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:43 pm

Nice work. Glad to see that people is getting involved.

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:23 pm

Here is my init script for Fedora or RedHat distros

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/kaid
#
# Starts the kai daemon
#
# chkconfig: 345 95 5
# description: Xlink Kai engine
# processname: kaid
# Author: Cyborgas
# Date released: 20 October 2004

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

test -x /usr/bin/kaid || exit 0

RETVAL=0

#
# See how we were called.
#

prog="kaid"

start() {
## After soft-close is implemented on kaid this will be better
# Check if kaid is already running
#if [ ! -f /var/lock/subsys/kaid ]; then
echo -n $"Starting $prog... done "
/usr/bin/kaid -c /etc/kaid.conf > /var/log/kaid.log &
# RETVAL=$?
# [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/kaid
echo
#else
# echo -n $"$prog is already running"
# echo
#fi
return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
echo -n $"Stopping $prog... done "
killall -9 kaid
# After soft-close is implemented on kaid this will be better
#RETVAL=$?
#[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/kaid
echo
return $RETVAL
}

restart() {
stop
start
}

reload() {
restart
}

status_kaid() {
status /usr/bin/kaid
}

case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
reload|restart)
restart
;;
condrestart)
if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/kaid ]; then
restart
fi
;;
status)
status_kaid
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit $?
exit $RETVAL

Put this script on /etc/init.d/ with the name kaid
and

Code:

# chmod +x /etc/init.d/kaid

Copy kaid engine to /usr/bin/
and kaid.conf to /etc/
the debug log is available on /var/log/kaid.log

EDITED (05-06-2005): CORRECTED THE '-c' FLAG WHEN STARTING KAID

Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:57 am

Can't we make this the official init script thread? Just post all scripts regarding startup and shutdown for the different distro's in this thread and perhaps it can be made sticky.

Edit:

I just saw this thread, sorry to doublepost. Can these threads be joined?

Arjan

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:44 am

Johndoe wrote:

Hi everybody,

I'm using gentoo on my 24/7 linux server and made this init script so I can run kaid the way the gentoo god intended:

Yes, but... you didn't install it the way the Gentoo god intended. Very Happy

Steps:

1. Ensure you have PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" in /etc/make.conf.

2. mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/games-server/kaid/files; cd /usr/local/portage/games-server/kaid

3. create kaid-7.0.0.1.ebuild with the contents of this code block:

Code:

# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header$

DESCRIPTION="XLink KAI -- link game consoles together over the internet (Xbox only so far)"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/"
SRC_URI="http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/binary/unix/${P}-linux.tar.bz2"

LICENSE="as-is"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="-* x86"
IUSE=""

DEPEND=""
RDEPEND="virtual/libc"

S=${WORKDIR}/${PN}

src_compile() {
echo "Nothing to compile, this is a binary."
}

src_install() {
exeinto /usr/games/bin
doexe kaid

dodoc README

insinto /etc
doins kaid.conf

exeinto /etc/init.d
doexe ${FILESDIR}/kaid
}

4. create files/kaid with the contents of this code block:

Code:

#!/sbin/runscript
# Kaid script, 21 october 2004, A. Loermans

depend() {
need net
}

start() {
ebegin "Starting kaid"
/usr/games/bin/kaid /etc/kaid.conf > /var/log/kaid.log &
eend $?
}

stop() {
ebegin "Stopping kaid"
killall -9 kaid
eend $?
}

(This is an only slightly modified version of Johndoe's script, to reflect that I put kaid in /usr/games/bin/kaid. So I left his name on it.)

5. ebuild /usr/local/portage/games-server/kaid/kaid-7.0.0.1.ebuild digest

6. emerge -av kaid

If all goes well you should be prompted to install at this point, and if you confirm that, it should install.

Known issues:

The license is currently "as-is". The exact license of XLink would need to be clarified by the XLink team in order to make it into Portage. XLink has no LICENSE file inside its tarball, so it's not really easy to say what I should put it down as. Chances are it will require a custom license to be created.
I'm not inheriting from games.eclass, which I probably should, since I'm installing into /usr/games.
Running as root is begging to be hacked. I should be using a chroot wrapper of some sort for this.
Probably a couple of other minor narks I have with my ebuild, which will be found really quickly by a Portage pro.

If I get these resolved relatively quickly I should probably submit it to the Bugzilla so that it can appear as a real ebuild.

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:24 am

Hi,

Good job all of you. Thanks for those contributions. There is a "Contributions" topic in this forum, next contributions, please, put them there.

About the license, well, we don't have anything defined yet. We'll be releasing the source as soon as we have it complete and by then we'll discuss licensing issues.

Root privileges will be dropped when we have a more advanced status, its just an alpha, people using it should be aware of what they're doing. For now they're required for packet sniffing and packet injection, guess that after having those valid handles I can immediatly drop privs, will check that soon!

I dind't see where did the log go, same place as previous script ? /var/log/kaid.log ?

Cheers.

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:34 am

Yup, /var/log/kaid.log just like the last one (I hardly changed the script at all.)

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:38 am

@trejkaz: Thanks, now this is doing things the gentoo way Cool

Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:02 am

yeah, i installed kai exactly the way you described, trejkas. but for me it does NOT work. i can't connect with my xbox. but when i start my pc running gentoo it says "starting kaid.......................ok". just as my ftp-server and everything, which works fine! but not kaid. what am i doing wrong?
i checked the kaid.conf and everything looks as it should. in the log-file it says "5 orbital meshs available", so there must be a connection. and the files are in the right folders. otherwise kaid wouldn't start at all, would it?
i tried to configure kaid through the winUI, but i didn't get that to work and at least i don't know if this is right to do so.
any suggestions?
please help me as I finally got my gentoo-ftp-server up and running, it would be perfect to run kaid as backgroung-daemon!!!
thanks in advance,
spoone

Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:52 am

Hmm. Not sure, I guess the KAI guys would know more, since it seemed to install fine that's the end of my line. Smile

Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:37 pm

well, here's my log-file:

Reading settings from /etc/kaid.conf
Fetching settings from http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/connector/clientgetconfig.php...
5 orbital(s) available...
Kai daemon starting...
PKTSNIFF: Setting up packet sniffer...
PKTSNIFF: Applying pcap filter 'ether src MY-MAC-ADRESS'
Everything set with packet sniffer...

i think it looks ok. but i can't connect.
i port-forwarded ports 37500, 34522 and 34525 to my gentoo-linux-pc, but after i did ports 34522 and 34525, my xbox doesn't even recognize my home-network. internet works. going to change that again.

location of my files:

kaid.conf

/etc
kaid(.exe)

/usr/games/bin
kaid(runscript)

/etc/init.d

please, if someone knows what to do to get kaid up and running, help me.
PLEASE!!! i'm dying to get this to work...
greetings, spoone

EDIT:
i changed the settings of my router to only port-forward :37500. now my network is reachable again.

Kai Beginner Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 3 Location: Canada

i have got both kaid .2 and .3 working on debian sarge.
i used the fedora script with the first unhashed line removed, don't know if that's right but wouldn't work for me otherwise
put the bin/conf where they go for fedora, and then update-rc.d with the appropriate string and you should have kai starting with init.d

props to ^S^ for an incredible effort. i'm using xbmc as a ui btw.

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:11 am

well, thanks for the help!
but 7.0.0.3 is out and i got my new linksys wrt54g, so this is solved anyway as there is no need to use 7.0.0.2 anymore.
7.0.0.3 works great!!!
and the kaistation is the most incredible piece of software. everyone should get a wrt54g. saves power too...
although i don't have that much money, i think that's worth a donation...

Merry Christmas to you, TeamXlink.
have a nice holiday!!!
sincerely yours,
spoone

Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 11:11 pm

I'd like to create a script to launch gkaiui and kaid at the same time. However in order to peform one command the next one has to finish first and in order to launch gkaiui kaid needs to stay going, so how would I do that?

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:19 pm

Do something like this (I think this is what you mean):

Code:

#!/sbin/runscript
/path_to_your_kaid_script/kaid &
/path_to_kaigui/gkaiui

That's about it. The '&' takes care of starting kaid in it's own process and giving control back to the shell which proceeds and launches gkaiui.

You have to make the above executable (chmod +x scriptfilename)

JohnDoe

Kai Beginner Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Norway

dslam @ Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:50 pm wrote:

i have got both kaid .2 and .3 working on debian sarge.
i used the fedora script with the first unhashed line removed, don't know if that's right but wouldn't work for me otherwise
put the bin/conf where they go for fedora, and then update-rc.d with the appropriate string and you should have kai starting with init.d

props to ^S^ for an incredible effort. i'm using xbmc as a ui btw.

Can you show me exactely how you do it? Because when i use the FC script, my computer hangs during bootup. It hangs starting eth0 in promisceus mode.
What do you exatctely type whne you run the 'update-rc.d' ?

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:24 pm

For those who aren't using syslog (or don't know how), for metalog just add this to /etc/metalog/metalog.conf (this is on a Gentoo system):

Code:

kaid :
program = "kaid"
logdir = "/var/log/kaid"

Now you're logging the proper way. My init script is the same as the original poster, with the .conf in /etc where it should be. kaid is in /opt/kaid/.

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:50 pm

In the Fedora Core instructions it says...

/usr/bin/kaid /etc/kaid.conf > /var/log/kaid.log &

For Fedora Core 3 I had to use...

/usr/bin/kaid -c /etc/kaid.conf > /var/log/kaid.log &

Just add -c
After that it works the nuts THANKS!

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:22 am

For Ubuntu users (probably debian also)
follow cyborgas's instructions above (posted Oct 21, 2004 7:23pm)
with MOSQUE's -c modification to file /etc/init.d/kaid (posted Apr 15, 2005 9:50)
and add a symbolic link with the following command

Code:

sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/kaid /etc/rc2.d/S25kaid

(this assumes you will boot to run level 2)

Kai Beginner Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1 Location: France

Hi all

I just created this small and basic script (my first) to use kaid as a service and launch at pc boot on debian.

(version 7.0.0.5 for me)

Howto:

1-edit your kaid.conf and copy it to /etc
2-copy the kaid binarie to /usr/bin

3-now copy the script then paste it in /etc/init.d/kaid (create this file)
-save and exit then chmod it with : chmod +x /etc/init.d/kaid (as root sure)

to get it working when pc start type (as root): update-rc.d kaid defaults 19

that's all Wink

Code:

#!/bin/bash
###############################################################
# KAID Daemon script
################################################################
# kaid.conf must be placed in /etc and kaid binary in /usr/bin
#################################################################
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/bin/kaid
NAME=kaid
DESC="free console network gaming system"
KAID_LOG="/var/log/kaid.log"

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

# Source configuration parameters
#/etc/kaid.conf

OPTIONS="-d -s -o log $KAID_LOG -c /etc/kaid.conf"

##start##

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting : $NAME"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS
echo "...done"
;;

##stop##

stop)
echo -n "Stopping : $NAME "
killall -9 `which $NAME`
echo "...done"
;;

##restart##

restart|force-reload)
echo -n "restarting : $NAME "
$0 stop && $0 start
;;
*)
N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
# echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart}" >&2
echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac

- now you can start it with /etc/init.d/kaid start
- make your own launcher for jkaiui or gkaiui on your desktop with a nice icon and it s perfect Wink

ok sorry for my poor english and enjoy Wink

thanks to all the xlink team for their good works Wink

. i m there since boxlink and it s always better Wink

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