Re: perl boot scripts

2012-12-22 Thread Glenn English
On Dec 22, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 22 dec 12, 13:03:41, Glenn English wrote: >> >> So do I need to go to C? With a starter shell script in /etc/init.d? >> What *is* available at boot? A link with the proper magic words would >> do fine. > > When at boot? As an init s

Re: perl boot scripts

2012-12-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 dec 12, 13:03:41, Glenn English wrote: > > So do I need to go to C? With a starter shell script in /etc/init.d? > What *is* available at boot? A link with the proper magic words would > do fine. When at boot? I would guess that /usr/bin/perl is available as soon as /usr is available

perl boot scripts

2012-12-22 Thread Glenn English
When is Perl available at boot? I've built this huge shell script to configure Iptables at boot, but over the years, it's gotten bloated and there are a lot of kludges in it. So I was thinking about rewriting it in Perl. But I see people in the Debian docs and forums saying that Perl isn't avai