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

[jlightner at water.com (Jeff Lightner)]

You should have a look at other start/stop scripts in /etc/init.d.  It
is expected to have a "start" section and a "stop" section at a minimum
as the init startup passes the keyword start or stop during run level
changes.

See if you have a README in your /etc/init.d directory - it will explain
this more fully.

Also on Linux you don't have to manually create the rc?.d files.  You
can use the chkconfig command to tell it which runlevels to start at.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Tim
To: ale at ale.org
Watts
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 4:11 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] why won't my startup script run?

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
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