How to get the NetVault service to kick off automaticly after init in Debain (81125)

Date: 7/2007
Affected NV Version: All up to 7.4.5
OS Version: Debian Linux
Plugin version: N/A
Application version: N/A

Description: How to get the NetVault service to kick off automatically after init in Debain

Symptoms: The NetVault service doesn't start automatically.

Here is how you get NetVault to run under Debain. This is a workaround that creates an equivalent to the Red Hat file "rc.local" in the Debain init.

1. Create a file called local in /etc/init.d
vi /etc/init.d/local

2. Make the file look like this
#! /bin/sh

/usr/netvault/startup.sh start

3. Make the file executable
chmod +x /etc/init.d/local

4. Make the Debian init aware of the "local" file
update-rc.d local defaults 80

What this does is create a file you can throw scripts you want to kick off on init. In our case a script that kicks off the NetVault service.