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. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O|
