1Because OpenWrt uses its own init script system, all init scripts must be installed 2as \texttt{/etc/init.d/\textit{name}} use \texttt{/etc/rc.common} as a wrapper. 3 4Example: \texttt{/etc/init.d/httpd} 5 6\begin{Verbatim} 7#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common 8# Copyright (C) 2006 OpenWrt.org 9 10START=50 11start() { 12 [ -d /www ] && httpd -p 80 -h /www -r OpenWrt 13} 14 15stop() { 16 killall httpd 17} 18\end{Verbatim} 19 20as you can see, the script does not actually parse the command line arguments itself. 21This is done by the wrapper script \texttt{/etc/rc.common}. 22 23\texttt{start()} and \texttt{stop()} are the basic functions, which almost any init 24script should provide. \texttt{start()} is called when the user runs \texttt{/etc/init.d/httpd start} 25or (if the script is enabled and does not override this behavior) at system boot time. 26 27Enabling and disabling init scripts is done by running \texttt{/etc/init.d/\textit{name} enable} 28or \texttt{/etc/init.d/\textit{name} disable}. This creates or removes symbolic links to the 29init script in \texttt{/etc/rc.d}, which is processed by \texttt{/etc/init.d/rcS} at boot time. 30 31The order in which these scripts are run is defined in the variable \texttt{START} in the init 32script. Changing it requires running \texttt{/etc/init.d/\textit{name} enable} again. 33 34You can also override these standard init script functions: 35\begin{itemize} 36 \item \texttt{boot()} \\ 37 Commands to be run at boot time. Defaults to \texttt{start()} 38 39 \item \texttt{restart()} \\ 40 Restart your service. Defaults to \texttt{stop(); start()} 41 42 \item \texttt{reload()} \\ 43 Reload the configuration files for your service. Defaults to \texttt{restart()} 44 45\end{itemize} 46 47You can also add custom commands by creating the appropriate functions and referencing them 48in the \texttt{EXTRA\_COMMANDS} variable. Helptext is added in \texttt{EXTRA\_HELP}. 49 50Example: 51 52\begin{Verbatim} 53status() { 54 # print the status info 55} 56 57EXTRA_COMMANDS="status" 58EXTRA_HELP=" status Print the status of the service" 59\end{Verbatim} 60 61