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startup file authoring question



Does anybody know why startup scripts are always shell scripts? 

A number of the Debian scripts (apache, postfix, discover...) use awk, 
which is on the /usr partition. So is Perl. Why can't I write a startup in 
Perl? Sure would make my life easier...

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Glenn English
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