It comes up with its own .install file, It is provided with the setup.
https://www.sidefx.com/download/houdini-for-linux/
I just opened the service init.d files and I find out something that it try to use init-functions and it require the /etc/init.d link with that service
#!/bin/sh
BEGIN INIT INFO
Provides: sesinetd
Required-Start: $local_fs $network
Required-Stop:
Should-Start:
Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
Default-Stop: 0 1 6
Short-Description: Script to start and stop the Houdini License Manager
Description:
END INIT INFO
Start/Stop Houdini License Manager
Linux:
This script goes in the appropriate init.d directory with symlinks
called S89sesinetd in /etc/rc[2345].d and K89sesinetd in /etc/rc[S016].d
SESI=/usr/lib/sesi # Directory where sesinetd is installed
SESINETD={SESI}/sesinetd # Name of sesinetd executable to run
SESICTRL={SESI}/sesictrl # Name of sesictrl executable to run
SESINETD_START=${SESI}/sesinetd_safe # Script to start sesinetd
Location of options files, leave empty to automatically determine this.
Default: ${SESI}/sesinetd.options
OPTIONS_FILE=
Additional options specified on top of those specified in $OPTIONS_FILE
OPTIONS_EXTRA=
Name of log file, leave empty to automatically this.
Default: /var/log/sesinetd.log
LOG_FILE=
Location of directory to store pid file
This is used to determine if sesinetd has already started, and if so, its
process id. Leave this empty to be automatically determine this.
Default: /var/run if it exists, otherwise to $SESI
PID_DIR=
HOST=hostname -s
DEBUG=0 # Set to 1 to debug this script
Load LSB init functions
if [ -f /lib/lsb/init-functions ]; then
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
fi
pidofsesinetd() {
pid=ps -C "sesinetd" -o pid,command | grep -v '/bin/sh' | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'
if [ “$pid” != “PID” ]; then
echo $pid
return 0
else
return 1
fi
}
Provide our own versions if not defined already
if ! type log_daemon_msg > /dev/null 2>&1; then
log_daemon_msg() {
echo -n $1
}
fi
if ! type log_end_msg > /dev/null 2>&1; then
log_end_msg() {
if [ “$1” = “0” ]; then
echo “.”
else
echo " FAILED"
fi
}
fi
if ! type log_action_msg > /dev/null 2>&1; then
log_action_msg() {
echo “$@.”
}
fi
Check whether installation directory is correct
if [ ! -d “$SESI” ]; then
echo “Error: Directory ‘$SESI’ does not exist.”
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -x “$SESINETD” ]; then
echo “Error: File ‘$SESINETD’ does not exist or is not executable.”
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -x “$SESINETD_START” ]; then
echo “Error: File ‘$SESINETD_START’ does not exist or is not executable.”
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -x “$SESICTRL” ]; then
echo “Error: File ‘$SESICTRL’ does not exist or is not executable.”
exit 1
fi
Determine OPTIONS_FILE if empty
if [ -z "OPTIONS_FILE" ]; then
OPTIONS_FILE={SESI}/sesinetd.options
fi
Create user specified OPTIONS
OPTIONS=
if [ -r “$OPTIONS_FILE” ]; then
OPTIONS="$OPTIONS "cat $OPTIONS_FILE
fi
OPTIONS="$OPTIONS $OPTIONS_EXTRA"
if [ $DEBUG -eq 1 ]; then
OPTIONS="$OPTIONS --debug"
fi
Determine LOG_FILE if empty
if [ -z “$LOG_FILE” ]; then
LOG_FILE=/var/log/sesinetd.log
fi
Determine PID_FILE
if [ -z “$PID_DIR” ]; then
if [ -d /var/run ]; then
PID_DIR=/var/run
else
PID_DIR=$SESI
fi
fi
PID_FILE=${PID_DIR}/sesinetd.pid
if [ DEBUG -eq 1 ]; then
echo SESI={SESI}
echo SESINETD={SESINETD}
echo SESINETD_START={SESINETD_START}
echo SESICTRL={SESICTRL}
echo OPTIONS_FILE={OPTIONS_FILE}
echo OPTIONS={OPTIONS}
echo LOG_FILE={LOG_FILE}
echo PID_DIR={PID_DIR}
echo PID_FILE={PID_FILE}
fi
start_sesinetd() {
$SESINETD_START --sesi=$SESI --sesinetd=$SESINETD --log-file=$LOG_FILE --pid-file=$PID_FILE $OPTIONS &
# Wait for 20 seconds to start
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20; do
sleep 1
if [ -f $PID_FILE ]; then
return 0
fi
done
return 1
}
stop_sesinetd() {
# Try for 20 seconds to stop
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20; do
if [ -f $PID_FILE ]; then
rm -f $PID_FILE
fi
pid=pidofsesinetd
if [ -z “$pid” ]; then
return 0
fi
$SESICTRL -h 127.0.0.1 -Q
sleep 1
done
return 1
}
case “$1” in
start)
log_daemon_msg “Starting Houdini License server” “sesinetd”
if start_sesinetd; then
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
;;
stop)
log_daemon_msg "Stopping Houdini License server" "sesinetd"
if stop_sesinetd; then
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
;;
restart|force-reload)
log_daemon_msg "Stopping Houdini License server" "sesinetd"
if ! stop_sesinetd; then
log_end_msg 1
exit 0
else
log_end_msg 0
fi
log_daemon_msg "Starting Houdini License server" "sesinetd"
if start_sesinetd; then
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
;;
*)
log_action_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/sesinetd {start|stop|restart|force-reload}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
