Re: startup file authoring question

2005-10-12 Thread John Hasler
Glenn English writes: > Does anybody know why startup scripts are always shell scripts? Do you mean an init script? I'd be very suspicious of any init script complex enough to justify the use of Perl. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

startup file authoring question

2005-10-12 Thread Glenn English
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... -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: