On 2/14/2010 11:26 AM, nope wrote:
> I'm new to OpenSolaris and have been trying to figure out exactly how to get
> one of my own created scripts to run at boot. I wrote the following sample
> (perl) script just to see if I could get it to work, with no luck:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> while(true) {
> open(FILE, ">>file.txt");
> print FILE "This is a test script.\n";
> close(FILE);
> sleep(300);
> }
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The method I tried was:
>
> - Naming the script "myscript", and placing it in the /etc/init.d directory
> - using "chmod +x myscript" to make it an executable
> - creating a symbolic link with ln -s to the /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc3.d
> directories each with the name S50myscript
>
> I have searched exhaustively and can't seem to find a way to make this script
> run at boot. Can anyone help?
If that script did run, your system would fail to boot. The problem is
that the boot-time scripts are run synchronously. They're expected
either to do some work and then exit, or to fork one or more daemons
into the background -- and then exit. Having a boot script that just
runs without exiting is toxic.
There are a number of possibilities here. I suggest starting your
investigation by looking at these files:
/var/svc/log/milestone-multi-user:default.log
/var/svc/log/milestone-multi-user-server:default.log
Those files are where the rc2.d and rc3.d outputs are logged (respectively).
--
James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carls...@workingcode.com>
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