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How can I launch memcached on boot?

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    What system / version / os??
    – Arenstar
    Nov 13, 2010 at 17:31

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Why cron???

If its installed on Debian ( use rcconf ) or

update-rc.d memcached defaults

If its installed on Redhat,Fedora,Centos,Suse

chkconfig memcached on

If its installed on windows..

Dont Know, But suggest you install it on Linux :P
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Since you included cron as part of the question, I'm going to assume you are looking to do this on a UNIX or UNIXlike systems (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc). Although you could be trying to do this with cygwin.

This is not the normal method of starting services but it can be done. Running things from cron can be a way to ensure a critical service is restarted if it fails. You will need to write a wrapper script that checks if memcached is already running then starts it if it isn't. Then put entries in the cron.

The wrapper script will look in part like:

...
if ps -C memcached 2>/dev/null | grep -q memcached 2>/dev/null ; then
    MEMCAHED_RUNNING=1
then

if [ ! $MEMCACHED_RUNNING ]  ; then
    memecached $options
fi
...

Some enhancements that you should consider for this would be a check to ensure that memcache is not only running but returning values to key requests. That is is a bit beyond the scope of your question.

Then call the full script from cron. A cron entry in /etc/crontab would look like

*/5 * * * * user /path/to/memcached_restart_script 

In a user cron it would look like

*/5 * * * * /path/to/memcached_restart_script 

Most UNIX variants support the use of startup scripts. In SysV like systems like Solaris and Linux these are files named (servicename) stored in /etc/init.d with a link or symlink named S(nn)(servicename) in a directory like /etc/rc2.d, /etc/rc3.d, or /etc/rc5.d. In the BSD variants the script is stored under /usr/local/etc/rc.d or similar.

RHEL variants (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Scientific Linux, etc) can manage the scripts for you with a tool named chkconfig (chkconfig memcached on). Debian and ubuntu have a tool named update-rc.d (update-rc.d memcached defaults) Others have different methods.

Best Regards Rik

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Presuming linux-ish cron (ISC cron aka vixiecron, actually),

@reboot /path/to/memcached/start/script

will start memcached once at startup. man 5 crontab has more details.

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  • Very interesting... It makes sense for non daemon scripts, Why would you just not use standard init start?
    – Arenstar
    Nov 14, 2010 at 3:30
  • ...because you can do this as an unprivileged user.
    – pjz
    Nov 16, 2010 at 22:13

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