On Saturday 05 August 2006 07:50, Duncan wrote:
> If it's the exact same line both places, one works, the other doesn't,
> it's almost certainly due to the difference in environment.  The
> environment passed to the one started from initscript will be rather more
> limited than a fully interactive bash prompt environment.
>
> I'd suggest you put a debug statement in the initscript, right before the
> command executes, that prints the environment to one file and the exported
> environment to another.  Diff those against the same output from the
> command line that works right, and you'll have a good start on tracking
> down the culprit, since you'll have all the differences nicely listed, in
> ordered to check.

Additionally many init scripts use start-stop-daemon with the --quiet command 
line option. This suppresses all output from the command used. In this case 
we would like to see this output so remove "--quiet" from the init script.

Paul

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