Thanks to all who responded (too many to list). Most gave the correct fix,
which is that it should be located in /sbin/rc3.d instead of /sbin/rc2.d.
Unfortunately, the vendor's instructions said to put it in /sbin/rc2.d, and
not knowing Digital Unix very well and since rc2.d is where other Unix
version have it, I assumed their instructions were correct. Thanks again
to all.
Pinocci Paul wrote:
>
> I'm new to Digital Unix, but have worked with Solaris and HP-UX, so excuse
> anything I say that might sound uninformed. We are running DU 4.0D. The
> startup script is /sbin/init.d/sysedge and the link to it is
> /sbin/rc2.d/S99sysedge. That's where the Vendor's instructions say to put
> the link. The /etc/inittab file seems to indicate that /sbin/rc2.d scripts
> should be started during a reboot, so the location SHOULD not be the
> problem. Any ways, the script is the startup script for the Empire
> SystemEdge SNMP agent. I can't find any evidence that it is even being
> attempted to be started when the machine is being rebooted. I can't find
> any messages (good or bad) in any of the log files that /etc/syslog.conf
> says there are (messages, kern.log, daemon.log, etc). Manually starting it
> (/sbin/rc2.d/S99sysedge start) works just fine. Is there a file that
> stores the results of a reboot, similar to the /etc/rc.log file in HP-UX?
> We rebooted it remotely from a telnet session using shutdown -r, so we
> don't know what might have scrolled on the console. But if the startup
> script is not even being attempted, would we see anything on the console?
> The next test reboot, I'll be sure to do it from the console. But
> althought it's the development server, the owners don't like having it
> rebooted very often, so I don't have the luxury of attempting too many test
> reboots. We have a call into the vendor, but it does not seem their help
> desk has much experience in Digital Unix. Any suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated. I have attached the sysedge script, along with the
> /etc/inittab and /etc/syslog.conf. The startup script IS doing a nohup, so
> no need to suggest that. Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Paul Pinocci
> pinocci_paul_at_bah.com
>
Received on Mon Aug 21 2000 - 14:38:44 NZST