Here is a startup script I'm using. It's just a modified startup script found somewhere in the ser distribution. The binary is: SER_BIN=/usr/local/sbin/rtpproxy Probably you have to change this to fit your needs.

Klaus

#! /bin/sh # Copyright (c) 2002 Frauenhofer Gesellschaft FOKUS, Germany. # All rights reserved. # # Author: Nils Ohlmeier ohlmeier@fokus.fhg.de # # /etc/init.d/ser # ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: sip # Required-Start: $network # X-UnitedLinux-Should-Start: $network # Required-Stop: $network # X-UnitedLinux-Should-Stop: $network # Default-Start: 3 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6 # Short-Description: SIP Express Router # Description: Start SER and provide the routing of SIP requests. ### END INIT INFO

# Check for missing binaries (stale symlinks should not happen) echo "checking for rtpproxy binary..." SER_BIN=/usr/local/sbin/rtpproxy test -x $SER_BIN || exit 5 echo "rtpproxy binary found"

# Shell functions sourced from /etc/rc.status: # rc_check check and set local and overall rc status # rc_status check and set local and overall rc status # rc_status -v ditto but be verbose in local rc status # rc_status -v -r ditto and clear the local rc status # rc_status -s display "skipped" and exit with status 3 # rc_status -u display "unused" and exit with status 3 # rc_failed set local and overall rc status to failed # rc_failed <num> set local and overall rc status to <num> # rc_reset clear local rc status (overall remains) # rc_exit exit appropriate to overall rc status # rc_active checks whether a service is activated by symlinks # rc_splash arg sets the boot splash screen to arg (if active) . /etc/rc.status

# Reset status of this service rc_reset

# Return values acc. to LSB for all commands but status: # 0 - success # 1 - generic or unspecified error # 2 - invalid or excess argument(s) # 3 - unimplemented feature (e.g. "reload") # 4 - user had insufficient privileges # 5 - program is not installed # 6 - program is not configured # 7 - program is not running # 8--199 - reserved (8--99 LSB, 100--149 distrib, 150--199 appl) # # Note that starting an already running service, stopping # or restarting a not-running service as well as the restart # with force-reload (in case signaling is not supported) are # considered a success.

case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting rtpproxy " ## Start daemon with startproc(8). If this fails ## the return value is set appropriately by startproc. startproc $SER_BIN

# Remember status and be verbose rc_status -v ;; stop) echo -n "Shutting down rtpproxy " ## Stop daemon with killproc(8) and if this fails ## killproc sets the return value according to LSB.

killproc -TERM $SER_BIN

# Remember status and be verbose rc_status -v ;; restart) ## Stop the service and regardless of whether it was ## running or not, start it again. $0 stop $0 start

# Remember status and be quiet rc_status ;; force-reload) ## Signal the daemon to reload its config. Most daemons ## do this on signal 1 (SIGHUP). ## If it does not support it, restart.

echo -n "Reload service SIP Express Router " ## Otherwise: $0 stop && $0 start rc_status ;; reload) ## Like force-reload, but if daemon does not support ## signaling, do nothing (!)

## Otherwise if it does not support reload: rc_failed 3 rc_status -v ;; status) echo -n "Checking for service rtpproxy " ## Check status with checkproc(8), if process is running ## checkproc will return with exit status 0.

# Return value is slightly different for the status command: # 0 - service up and running # 1 - service dead, but /var/run/ pid file exists # 2 - service dead, but /var/lock/ lock file exists # 3 - service not running (unused) # 4 - service status unknown :-( # 5--199 reserved (5--99 LSB, 100--149 distro, 150--199 appl.)

# NOTE: checkproc returns LSB compliant status values. checkproc $SER_BIN # NOTE: rc_status knows that we called this init script with # "status" option and adapts its messages accordingly. rc_status -v ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}" exit 1 ;; esac rc_exit