<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >The LCDproc Init Scripts</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="LCDproc User's Guide" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="LCDproc Configuration" HREF="c254.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="LCDproc Configuration" HREF="c254.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="LCDproc Drivers" HREF="c429.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >LCDproc User's Guide: The Ultimate Guide to LCDproc 0.4.3</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="c254.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >LCDproc Configuration</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="c429.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="INIT-SCRIPTS" ></A >The LCDproc Init Scripts</H1 ><P >The LCDproc distribution contains init scripts for RedHat- and Debian-based GNU/Linux distributions. You can find them in the <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >docs/</TT > directory of the LCDproc sources.</P ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="NOTE" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="./stylesheet-images/note.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Note"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >The init scripts are generated using autoconf. So, again it is important that you have run <B CLASS="COMMAND" >./configure</B > with the correct options for your system.</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P >Refer to your system's manual on how to install the scripts.</P ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="INIT-LCDD" ></A >init-LCDd</H2 ><P >The file <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >scripts/init-LCDd.*</TT > is the init script for the LCDproc server LCDd. It does not require modification.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="INIT-LCDPROC" ></A >init-lcdproc</H2 ><P >The file <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >scripts/init-lcdproc.*</TT > is the init script for the LCDproc "main" client lcdproc. As lcdproc itself does not (yet) have a configuration file you may want to modify the options the init script passes to lcdproc.</P ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="NOTE" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="./stylesheet-images/note.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Note"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >You can retrieve a listing of all options of lcdproc running <B CLASS="COMMAND" >lcdproc --help</B >.</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P >The lcdproc init script retrieves the options it will pass to lcdproc from the file <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/lcdproc.conf</TT > (<TT CLASS="FILENAME" >scripts/lcdproc.conf</TT > in the sources distribution).</P ><DIV CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><A NAME="AEN424" ></A ><P ><B >Example 3. <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >lcdproc.conf</TT >: Modify the option passed to lcdproc</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > # /etc/lcdproc.conf # # Configuration file of the main LCDproc client "lcdproc" # NOTE: The configuration file of LCDd is /etc/LCDd.conf # Set SCREENS to the screens you want lcdproc to send to LCDd # lcdproc --help will give you a list of the screens available SCREENS="C X" </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P >In this example lcdproc will only send information on the CPU usage [C] and system load [X] to the server.</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c254.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c429.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >LCDproc Configuration</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c254.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >LCDproc Drivers</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >