On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 12:11:52PM +0000, Waider wrote:
> According to Declan Grady:
> > . ifup ippp0
> > . ndc start
> > . /usr/local/squid/bin/squid
>> 1. Those dots are there why?
I didn't notice those dots in the first post - blame my molars :-( Of course
they're the source of the grief and I presume they're there because somebody
copied something else with being too sure what he was doing (I tried really
hard to be nice :-) ) The line
. ifup ippp0
in a shell script tells the shell which is processing the script to find the
file ifup (looks along $PATH which I find odd, but that's the behaviour) and
attempts to run the commands contained in it as shell commands so if ifup
isn't on that shell's path, or is not a script (I presume it is), it won't
be sourced. The ndc and squid lines (presuming we are talking about BIND's
ndc) definitely won't work because these are ELF executables and not shell
scripts. Replace the three offending lines with
/path/to/ifup ippp0
/path/to/ndc start
/usr/local/squid/bin/squid
and you should be sorted.
However, I'd further ask what distro you're using - any current distro
should have a full set of start/stop scripts for these three things.
Niall
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