Using perl in /etc/init.d ?

[forrie]

I'm not able to get a native perl script to run under RHEL 5.x in the /etc/init.d section.

Specifically, we're trying to get certain information logged when the system shuts down.

(yes, it's checked in with chkconfig)

What I suspect I must do is wrap the init.d script in /bin/sh then have it call the bash script during shutdown.

I'm just trying to confirm this limitation... can someone comment?


Thanks.

 

[forrie]

As Annihilannic suggested, I ran my script with debugging and found a very subtle variable that the scripting subsystem depends upon...

[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/mytest
return $RETVAL

the last line, "return", is what was missing. Because I didn't have that return variable, it was just skipping over it.

That's "thus far" -- I will do some more testing, but I think this works. So you need to have the subsys lock and the RETVAL from that check included in the init.d script for it to work properly (through shutdown).