[NTLUG:Discuss] Script help

[Patrick R. Michaud]

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