Solaris

Hello,
I have troubles with running a service at the boot of Solaris 9. I have a link in /etc/rc3.d/ to my script which I want to run. :

Code:

/etc/rc3.d/S90myService

In this script, I fist "source" an config file to get some environments values

Code:

#!/bin/bash
...
source /my/dir/myenv 
...

But this seems to fail. This is the log during the boot:

Code:

/etc/rc3.d/S90myService: source: not found

It looks like the system is using sh instead of bash !

Any ideas about this problem ?

Thanks in advance,
regards,
Tex

Remove "source" and use the dot operator "."

Cheers,
ZB

Hello zazzybob,
thanks for the advice it seems to work better but could you explain me yhat is the difference ?

Actually, If I use "." instead of "source" the file seems to be sources but I have some syntax error during the sourcing of the file.

For example, in my sourced file I have :

Code:

function myEnv
{
 ....
}

MY_VAR="..."
myEnv

The error I get then is
Thanks,
Tex

You need to use plain old bourne shell syntax in rc scripts unless you explicitly give them the .sh extension.

Rename S90myService to S90myService.sh and that should work, including the source statement.

Hi jlliagre,
In fact, the S90myService file is a sym link to /etc/init.d/myService.sh.

I renamed the link S90myService to S90myService.sh and the source call to

Code:

source /my/dir/myenv.sh

but I still have the same problems ( source not found, syntax errors in the myenv.sh).

Tex.

How do you run the S90myService.sh script ?

For testing I run

Code:

/sbin/rc3

to run all run level 3 scripts. S90myService.sh is part of them. Actually, it is a link to the real script :

Code:

# ll /etc/rc3.d/S90*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         22 Mar 11 14:57 /etc/rc3.d/S90myService.sh -> /etc/init.d/myService.sh

T.