Recently I have been using Darwin Streaming Media Server for some small movies. However, I quickly found out that when I rebooted the server Darwin does not automatically start up with it. It was necessary to start it manually each time the server was rebooted or started. Needless to day I find this very inconvenient. So I decided to write a startup script. It was really very easy, as you will see below.

I am using Fedora Core 4 and did a normal install of Darwin 5.5 from Apple.

Then I added the following script as the directory /etc/rc.d/init.d/darwinssd with darwinssd being the filename, not a directory.
You will need to be superuser in order to write to this directory.

#!/bin/bash
#
# created by Adam Culp of Unique Web Sites, Inc.
# at www.uniquewebsites.com
#
# darwinssd     Startup script for the Darwin Streaming Server
#
# chkconfig: 345 85 15
# description: Darwin Streaming Server startup/shutdown script
# processname: darwinssd
# pidfile: /var/run/darwinssd.pid

darwinssd=/usr/local/sbin/DarwinStreamingServer
RETVAL=0

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting Darwin Streaming Server[darwinssd]: "
daemon $darwinssd
RETVAL=$?
echo
touch /var/lock/subsys/darwinssd
;;
stop)
echo -n "Shutting down Darwin Streaming Server[darwinssd]: "
killproc $darwinssd
RETVAL=$?
echo
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/darwinssd
rm -f /var/run/darwinssd.pid
;;
status)
status $darwinssd
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
reload)
echo -n "Reloading darwinssd: "
killproc $darwinssd -HUP
echo
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|status}"
exit 1

esac

exit 0

Of course you will also need to change the permissions on the file darwinssd to be -rwxr-xr-x (or 755).

At this point you can treat darwinssd as if it was any other daemon. You can add it to the starup with:(must be root user for this command)

chkconfig darwinssd on

As a superuser you would type it as:

/sbin/chkconfig darwinssd on

It also has other features such as start, stop, restart, and reload.
The same applies here for any of these commands:

service darwinssd restart

or as superuser

/sbin/service darwinssd restart