Insserv - Enable an installed system init script

insserv [-v] [-d] [-f] [[/]path/to/init.d/]script ...

insserv [-v] [[/]path/to/init.d/]script[,start=<lvl1>[,<lvl2>]] ...

insserv [-v] -r [-d] [-f] [[/]path/to/init.d/]script ...

insserv -h

/usr/lib/lsb/install_initd [[/]path/to/init.d/script]

/usr/lib/lsb/remove_initd [[/]path/to/init.d/script]

insserv enables an installed system init script (`boot script') by reading the comment header of the script, e.g.:

 ### BEGIN INIT INFO
 # Provides:       boot_facility_1 [ boot_facility_2 ...]
 # Required-Start: boot_facility_1 [ boot_facility_2 ...]
 # Required-Stop:  boot_facility_1 [ boot_facility_2 ...]
 # Should-Start:   boot_facility_1 [ boot_facility_2 ...]
 # Should-Stop:    boot_facility_1 [ boot_facility_2 ...]
 # Default-Start:  run_level_1 [ run_level_2 ...]
 # Default-Stop:   run_level_1 [ run_level_2 ...]
 # Description:    multiline_description
 ### END INIT INFO

 0   used for System halt
 1   used for single user mode
 2   used for local multiuser without remote network
 3   used for full multiuser with network
 4   reserved for local use
 5   used for full multiuser with network and xdm
 6   used for System reboot
 S   used during boot into single user mode
 B   used during boot before any other runlevel

insserv scans for System Facilities in the configuration file /etc/insserv.conf and each file in the directory /etc/insserv.conf.d/. Each line which begins with $ and a following name defines a system facility accordingly to the Linux Standard Base Specification (LSB), All names followed by such a system facility will declare the required dependencies of the facility. Here is an example for /etc/insserv.conf:

 # All local filesystems are mounted
 # (done during boot phase)
 $local_fs       boot

# Low level networking $network network route

# Named is operational $named named

# All remote filesystems are mounted # (in some cases /usr may be remote). $remote_fs $local_fs nfs

# System logger is operational $syslog syslog

# All network daemons are running $netdaemons portmap inetd

# Services which need to be interactive <interactive> boot.crypto Names starting with a `+' sign are marked as optional. If the service with the name after the plus sign is available it will be used, if not available it is ignored silently. Words beginning with < and ending with > are keywords. Currently <interactive> is the only know keyword for marking a service as an interactive one, e.g. a service which requires a passphrase or password input during boot or runlevel change.

Currently there are only four options for insserv.

-v, --verbose

Write out what is currently going on.

-n, --dryrun

Do not update symlinks.

-r, --remove

Remove the listed scripts from all runlevels.

-d, --default

Use default runlevels a defined in the scripts. This may restore an edited runlevel link scheme.

-f, --force

Ignore if a required service is missed.

-h, --help

Print out short usage message.

But you may use the argument syntax described in the following section.

[[/]path/to/init.d/]

Relative or absolute path to the init scripts base directory. For the SuSE Linux boot concept, this defaults to /etc/init.d/ in compliance with the LSB specification. In this case insserv does not add or remove a script to the runlevels declared in the script headers, but may re-order the runlevels if the order of the currently enabled scripts has changed (see option -d). Note that if a relative path is used insserv has to be called from the root directory.

[[/]path/to/init.d/]script ...

List of scripts which have to be added to the runlevels. If a path is used it should point to the absolute or relative location of the boot scripts. insserv checks for the existence of these scripts. For the runlevels the information found in the script is used.

[[/]path/to/init.d/]script[,start=<lvl1>[,<lvl2>]] ...

List of scripts which have to be added to the specified runlevels to be started with. You may use this extension to overwrite the default values for start and stop runlevels of the script. Note that <lvl1>, <lvl2>, ... are the known runlevels explained above. The extension ,stop=<lvl1>[,<lvl2>]] is possible but ignored on SuSE Linux.

-r [[/]path/to/init.d/]script ...

List of scripts which should be removed from the runlevels. If a path is used it should point to the absolute or relative location of the boot scripts. insserv checks for the existence of these scripts.

The exit codes have the following conditions:

0

Service was successfully installed or removed

1

Service was not installed or removed

Please be aware that the following patterns of boot script file names will be not accepted by insserv:

        *.local
        *.rpm*
        *.ba*
        *.old
        *.new
        *.save
        *.swp
        *.core
        *~

        $.#%_+-\*[]^:()~

Boot script sometimes misses comments.

/etc/insserv.conf

configuration file for insserv which defines the LSB System Facilities.

/etc/insserv.conf.d/

directory for further configuration files for declaring LSB System Facilities.

/etc/init.d/

path to the SuSE boot script base directory as required by the Linux Standard Base Specification (LSB).

/etc/init.d/.depend.boot,

/etc/init.d/.depend.start,

/etc/init.d/.depend.stop The make(1) like dependency files produced by insserv for booting, starting, and stopping with the help of startpar(8).

init.d(7), init(7), startproc(8), checkproc(8), killproc(8), startpar(8).

2000-2003 Werner Fink, 2000-2003 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.

Werner Fink <feedback@suse.de>