Startup script

Installing and Using OpenWrt
1

Hello,
I have installed php on the router for basic rest api implementation. If I fire below command from putty, my server starts and I can browse the page.

 php-cli -S 192.168.1.1:8080 -t /www

Somehow If I want startup script that runs along with boot, so that page is always available, below script is not working. can you help ? This script is visible in UI as well but always marked as disabled.

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#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
# Example script
# Copyright (C) 2007 OpenWrt.org
 
START=99
STOP=15
 
start() {        
        echo php started
        # commands to launch application
	php-cli -S 192.168.1.1:8088 -t /www &&
}                 
 
stop() {          
        echo stop
        # commands to kill application 
}
2

Just enable it in the UI.

LuCI > System > Startup and select Disabled to set it to Enabled

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3

Or set to enabled (= create a symlink in /etc/rc.d/ to the init script) by running /etc/init.d/yourscriptname enable from SSH console.

(That is the action that the LuCI button triggers.)

4

When I set this script and reboot the router.

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I get following error when I enable it.. its always marked as disabled. I think there is something missing.

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There is some thing wrong at the end of command where && is used. Not sure if its required or not. If I remove it works, but looks after some times php server gets killed.

5

This leaves me to believe you’ve derived the code from somewhere else.

Is your intent to run this in background?

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6

Double && means "run next the command after &&", and there should be a command on the line after &&

A single & would mean a detached process to be run on the background.

I have a hunch that you are aiming for either

  • php-cli -S 192.168.1.1:8088 -t /www &
    or
  • (php-cli -S 192.168.1.1:8088 -t /www )&
    which would be a detached shell.

Once of those might work for you if you want to keep the process run even after the script should complete. I would go with the latter version.

Ps. google for Linux shell detach process , and you should get more info.

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