Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble
Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> On 10/06/2016 5:06 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
>> Andrew McGlashan wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>> Now, I want the archiving script to run on system startup, I don't
>>> want dovecot or exim4 to be running when the script starts, it
>>> simply needs to have the /backup and /var file systems mounted to do
>>> it's required job
>>
>> Looks like it might also need syslog running...
>
> Perhaps, but why? I'm not asking it to log anything to syslog; just to
> create it's own log file in the /var/log directory.
Just going off the comments at the top -- states "required-start:
$syslog". Although, I suppose that you could've just forgotten to
remove that bit.
> [snip]
> Weird artifcat of something (perhaps GPG due to signing?), my copy as
> sent to the list is clean. The script works perfectly if ran with an
> interactive shell; right now the script isn't destructive, so I can run
> it as many times as I like and it works fine. The plan is to adjust the
> script, I think you can see how, but not until it works as expected.
How are you calling it while logged in? I'm starting to wonder if it's
a difference between [da]sh and bash (or whatever your standard login
shell is).
Also, not entirely sure what the 'VER=$x" assignment is doing, as you
don't seem to read $VER anywhere else.
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