Re: boot scripts
Thanks to all for the boot script tips. I have it up and running now... and I
move it to /usr/local/bin (good advice).
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 03:08 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:17:43AM -0400, R. Bradley Tilley wrote:
> > This adds the script nicely, but it fails to start the script with a
> > "Unable to start /usr/bin/firewall.sh: Exec format error"
>
> Sounds like you need to put a line like this as the first line of your
> script:
>
> #! /bin/sh
>
> You might also want to put locally written scripts in /usr/local/bin
> rather than /usr/bin to guarantee that the packaging system won't
> overwrite them.
>
> > The script can be started manually from the command line with
> > "firewall.sh start" I should point out that this is just a plain text
> > file with iptable rules. It has no code.
>
> iptables rules *are* code - they constitute a shell script. When you're
> running it from an interactive shell, the shell guesses that it's a
> shell script if it can't execute it any other way, which is why it works
> when you run it by hand. To make it work properly when started in other
> ways, though, you need the #! line above.
>
> Cheers,
--
Richard B. Tilley (Brad), System Administrator & Web Developer
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