Hello,

currently I am trying to use prelude on 2 different systems. On device A runs libprelude, libpreludedb, mysql-server, prelude-manager, prelude-lml and prewikka. It is kind of a base station. This server runs as an Ubuntu 14.04 machine on Virtualbox.

On device B, I installed libprelude and prelude-lml. It is a switch with a custom Linux kernel, that's based on Debian. I had to cross-compile the libraries for system B by using buildroot.

I can establish a connection between the two nodes and register the lml-sensor on the manager. But the problem is that system B does not offer any services to start/stop/restart prelude-lml because the script is missing under /etc/init.d/. How is this possible? I tried to add the script manually, but first it terminated unsuccessfully. It does, however, run just fine on device A. The script:

#!/bin/sh -e
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          prelude-lml
# Required-Start:    $syslog $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:     $syslog $remote_fs
# Should-Start:      $local_fs
# Should-Stop:       $local_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start prelude-lml sensor
### END INIT INFO

test $DEBIAN_SCRIPT_DEBUG && set -v -x

NAME=prelude-lml
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
DAEMON=/usr/bin/prelude-lml
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
DAEMONARGS="-d -q -P /var/run/$NAME.pid" 

trap "" 1
export LANG=C
export PATH

test -f $DAEMON || exit 0

check_prelude_profile()
{
    if [ ! -d "/etc/prelude/profile/$NAME" ]; then
        echo "Prelude profile for $NAME was not found" 
        echo "You must create it with prelude-admin (see README.Debian)" 
        echo "NOT starting." 
        # do not return with an error, this would prevent package installation
        exit 0
    fi
}

case "$1" in
  start)
    echo -n "Starting Prelude LML: " 
    check_prelude_profile
    start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --oknodo \
        --quiet -- $DAEMONARGS > /dev/null
    echo "$NAME." 
    ;;

  stop)
    echo -n "Stopping Prelude LML: " 
    start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --quiet \
        --oknodo > /dev/null
    echo "$NAME." 
    ;;

  restart|force-restart|reload|force-reload)
    echo -n "Restarting Prelude LML: " 
    check_prelude_profile
    start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --quiet \
        --oknodo > /dev/null
    start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --oknodo \
        --quiet -- $DAEMONARGS > /dev/null
    echo "$NAME." 
        ;;

  *)
    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" 
    exit 1
           ;;
esac

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    echo .
    exit 0
else
    echo failed
    exit 1
fi

I tried to run the commands one by one afterwards. I realised that machine B also lacked a *.pid file as well as the whole ruleset folder under /etc/prelude-lml/ruleset. After copying this from machine A, the script terminates without an error, but it doesn't do anything.

I wanted to know if this is a known issue of a specific version or if buildroot is messing things up. Or am I doing something completely wrong? Any help is highly appreciated!

Best regards,

Sebastian