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Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

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Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

On 10/06/2016 5:06 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
> Andrew McGlashan wrote:
>> 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"?

That's what I thought, I have sysvinit.....

# dpkg-query -l|egrep -e '(sysvinit|systemd|upstart)'
ii  libsystemd-login0:amd64            44-11+deb7u4
amd64        systemd login utility library
ii  sysvinit                           2.88dsf-41+deb7u1
amd64        System-V-like init utilities
ii  sysvinit-utils                     2.88dsf-41+deb7u1
amd64        System-V-like utilities


>> 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?

None, no log is created.  The machine runs within a Xen KVM.  I can't
see any evidence the script is run during startup.

>> 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.

>> 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.

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.

Kind Regards
AndrewM

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Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but  can run manually without any trouble Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-06-09 19:50 +0200
  Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on  startup, but  can run manually without any trouble Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-06-09 21:20 +0200
    Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-06-09 21:30 +0200
      Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on  startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-06-09 22:30 +0200
        Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-06-09 22:40 +0200
          Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on  startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-06-09 23:10 +0200
            Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 23:30 +0200
        Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Mark Neyhart <Mark.Neyhart@akleg.gov> - 2016-06-09 23:30 +0200
  Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-06-09 21:30 +0200
    Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-06-09 21:40 +0200
      Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-06-09 22:10 +0200
        Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-06-09 22:20 +0200
          Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-06-10 00:40 +0200
            Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 10:20 +0200
  Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-06-09 23:40 +0200
    Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-06-10 08:00 +0200
      Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-06-10 09:20 +0200
        Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup,  but can run manually without any trouble Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-06-11 06:10 +0200

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