Date: 08 Oct 2004 08:43:46 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Robert Dormer <rdormer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sleep in startup script never wakes up Message-ID: <44zn2xxtvh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3174add604100705559f9877e@mail.gmail.com> References: <3174add604100705559f9877e@mail.gmail.com>
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Robert Dormer <rdormer@gmail.com> writes: > I have a shell script that I've put in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d > directory of a box to do some fscking when needed. The script is > straightforward, there are not any complicated control structures or > anything like that. However, at one point it had a sleep statement in > it that would go to sleep, but when the required number of seconds > elapsed, it wouldn't wake up again. I've since rewritten the script > to not require it, but I was wondering what's up with that? Is this a > known problem? I don't think so; I certainly don't see this symptom myself. Maybe you're not invoking /bin/sleep? Make sure you specify the full path in your script...
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