[NTLUG:Discuss] Script help

[Fred James]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:15:11AM -0700, Fred wrote:
>   
>> I wrote a little script that works just fine when I invoke it manually
>> but when I put it into the /etc/init.d startup scrip "local" (where I have
>> other misc scripts) it refuses to start... or continue to run after the
>> rc5.d quits, or whatever. Bottom line is that when I do a ps -ef |grep 
>> <scriptname>
>> it is not running.
>>     
>
> Out of curiosity, why not use cron to run it periodically 
> instead of always running and sleeping?
>
> Pm
>   
cron gets my vote, as well
Regards
Fred James