Having unreal start on boot

pete212 · Post by **pete212** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:49 pm

i run linux valhalla 7.3 and i was wondering how to get unreal to start up on boot, so i dont have to login and then go into the unreal dir and start it etc...

anyone know how?

jewles · Post by **jewles** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 12:06 am

what you are looking for is called crontab. it's a script you run that checks and starts processes. unreal has a sample crontab in Unreal3.2/ircdcron.

pete212 · Post by **pete212** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 4:42 am

0,1,2,3,4,5 * * * * /home/admin/Server/Unreal3.2/ircdcron/ircdchk

^ is in my .cron and it isnt working :S

Dukat · Post by **Dukat** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:27 am

pete212 wrote:0,1,2,3,4,5 * * * * /home/admin/Server/Unreal3.2/ircdcron/ircdchk

Are you sure it is not working? How long did you wait?
You DO know what 0,1,2,3,4,5 * * * * means, right?

AngryWolf · Post by **AngryWolf** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:44 am

Your first question points to the fact that probably this is the first time you've heard of crontab. If that's right, I suggest you to read a documentation about crontab before using it.

pete212 · Post by **pete212** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 1:41 pm

i do know what it is now, but its just the way i did it didnt work, i even got mail.

AngryWolf · Post by **AngryWolf** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 4:29 pm

It's a good idea to read that mail. You receive such mail messages everytime when the script you called in crontab sends something to the standard output or standard error. They can be useful to detect if there was a failure in automatically starting UnrealIRCd and to find a solution.