[ale] why won't my startup script run?

[timtw at earthlink.net (Tim Watts)]

Hi,

I can't figure out why a simple startup script isn't getting called on my SuSE 
10.2 system. 

Here's what I'm doing:

I created a file called /etc/init.d/test which just echoes hello to a file in 
my home dir. It works when I run it from the cmdline. Next, I create 2 
symbolic links in /etc/init.d/rc5.d: S09test and K09test. Both of these point 
to ../test. These also work when run from the cmdline.

I then run init 3 followed by init 5 (as root). However, the output file does 
not get created which tells me that the script was never run. What am I 
missing?!

Here is my test script:

/bin/echo hello >/home/timtw/test.log