==== Script to start and stop a Domino server ==== #!/bin/bash # # /etc/init.d/domino # ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: Domino # Required-Start: $syslog $remote_fs $network # Required-Stop: $syslog $remote_fs $network # Default-Start: 3 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6 # Short-Description: Domino providing IBM Lotus Domino Server # Description: Start Domino to provide an IBM Lotus Domino Server ### END INIT INFO # . /etc/init.d/functions DATADIR=/local/notesdata RETVAL=0 ulimit -n 20000 start() { echo -n "Starting Domino Server" sudo -u notes /opt/ibm/lotus/bin/server "=$DATADIR/notes.ini" & RETVAL=$? # Remember status and be verbose echo [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] return $RETVAL } stop() { echo -n "Shutting down Domino Server" sudo -u notes /opt/ibm/lotus/bin/server "=$DATADIR/notes.ini" -q RETVAL=$? # Remember status and be verbose RETVAL=0 # have to force this since since there's no way of really # knowing echo [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] return $RETVAL } restart() { # Stop the service and regardless of whether it was running or not, # start it again. stop start } case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart) restart ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" exit 1 ;; esac exit $RETVAL Place the file above to the directory "/etc/init.d" e.g. as the file "domino". Make this file executable: chmod +x /etc/init.d/domino To automatically start and stop a server if Linux is atrting and stopping you need to run the following commands: cd /etc/rc0.d ln -s /etc/init.d/domino K10domino cd /etc/rc2.d ln -s /etc/init.d/domino S99domino cd /etc/rc3.d ln -s /etc/init.d/domino S99domino