Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > In the Solaris world and most SYSV systems like it, there was a very > simple startup system; it was not systemd, nor is it the "modern day" > sysvinit. It was much simpler and worked very, very well and extremely > reliably. How can we get that back on modern Debian? > > > I mean simple, just like this: > > - when entering a run level (start passed to each script) > > - run all S scripts in alphanumeric order > S02xxx before S03xxx and S02aaa before S02aab ... > > - when exiting a run level (stop passed to each script) > > - run all K scripts in alphanumeric order > K02xxx before K03xxx and K02aaa before K02aab ...
That's pretty much sysvinit right there ... perhaps you're thinking of "Upstart" as the "modern sysvinit"? > Now I have sysvinit isntalled on wheezy, it is failing to run a simple > script during system boot (as part of a planed reboot) and I cannot work > out why. What error messages (if any) are you getting? > 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... > > My script is meant to create a log file in the /var/log directory. If I > run the script manually, it works perfectly. There are some generic > parts in the script, it is a fairly simple script, even if a little bit > over complicated. What do I need to do to fix it? Not sure if this is an artifact of how you sent the mail to the group, but your ARCHIVE_DIR is "3D/backup/[...]". That's not a valid path. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O|
