I created an initscript for a daemon recently it works well for starting and stopping, but "service status somedaemon" would return "status: unrecognized service"
After a bit of googling I found that the top few lines of the initscript are critical. It should be a describe here:
#!/bin/sh
#
# somedaemon
#
# chkconfig: - 85 15
# description: Some daemon
# processname: somedaemon
# pidfile: /var/run/somedaemon.pid
Here is what these lines do.
- #!/bin/sh - This is a shell script.
- # somedaemon - This is the name of the service used with for "service status somedaemon". If this is missing, you'll see: "status: unrecognized service".
- chkconfig: - 85 15 - This tells chkconfig three things, firstly (the dash) at what runlevel to start it. A dash means default. Secondly at what priority to start and lastly at what priority to stop.
- description: Some daemon - Not used.
- processname: somedaemon - Not used.
- pidfile: /var/run/somedaemon.pid - Used in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions to determine if the process is running or not.