noip2 does not start at boot when installed from apt on 8.10 server

[DiddyWolf]

Binary package hint: noip2

When noip2 is installed from APT on Intrepid 8.10 server, it does not start automatically at boot. There is no entry for it's startup script under /etc/rc2.d/. If you try to add this entry with 'update-rc.d noip2 start 20 2 .', update-rc.d claims the link already exists. Links do already exist in runlevels 3 and 4, but not the default 2. When the link is added manually, noip2 starts up at boot as expected.

lsb_release -rd:

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

apt-cache policy noip2:

noip2:
  Installed: 2.1.7-9
  Candidate: 2.1.7-9
  Version table:
 *** 2.1.7-9 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Avi Rozen (zungbang)]

Fixed in Debian since 2.1.7-10

[mexlinux (mcanedo)]

Any solution or workaround?

[beh (beh)]

I put following line in to file /etc/init.d/noip2 as a workaround:

noip2

[beh (beh)]

I'm sorry, I meant file /etc/rc.local.

[serbuntu (leonhardtla-msn)]

How can I get it to boot the system? thanks

[Ezra Reeves (ezrareeves)]

noip2 makes an init.d script by default but it has an error. It is'nt set to start at bootup in runlevel 2 (the default runlevel in Ubuntu)

A very good tool to change which services start and which dont in different runlevels is sysv-rc-conf.

sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf
sudo sysv-rc-conf

You will notice that in noip2's row under runlevel 2 there is no x. Use the spacebar to toggle.

[serbuntu (leonhardtla-msn)]

Thanks, the tool is very useful, but if in runlevel 2 is the X, making a htop, I see that running as root instead of nobody, I have applied to run as nobody, but still running well ..