Mkrhinit creates a basic SysV Init script stub for Red Hat-based distributions. It's intended to help streamline the process of creating init scripts for services that didn't come packaged with their own.

TODO: marks places that necessarily require modification in order to turn the stub into a complete init script.

# ruby mkrhinit.rb [OPTIONS]
    -p, --program PROGRAM            Program name
    -c, --config [FILE]              Config file
    -l, --levels [LEVELS]            Runlevels
    -h, --help                       Print help

# ruby mkrhinit.rb --program /usr/bin/appd --config /etc/sysconfig/appd -levels 2345 >> appd
# chmod -c +x appd
# cp -p appd /etc/init.d/
# chkconfig --add appd

The output is a basic version of an init script, which the user can then expand upon. However, this is not an LSB compliant stub. This script is designed as a training tool and should only be used in production after configuration and proper testing.

Where compatibility is concerned, most modern versions of any Red Hat-based distribution should suffice as long as SysV init scripts are still supported. RHEL 5 and 6 still use SysV but it is purported that RHEL 7 will use systemd.

While systemd still provides some compatibility for SysV init, I cannot guarantee that that scripts generated using this script will be supported. Use at your own risk.

Ruby

Any of the Red Hat-based distributions. Major ones are listed here for reference: