action command

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi..

When i refered the script /etc/rc.sysinit...

i found the "action commands" like

But this is not working in my shells..

the following error is coming...

Please anybody help

Thanks in advance
esham

2

Please post your OS and version. Also, is the example given,

the one that is failing or is it some other line? Please provide the line that is failing and explain

  • as the boot process running a shell script is not the same as a user running a shell script after the system is up.

Also see rc.sysinit script

3

My OS is RedHAT 9 kernel 2.6.10

what my problem is that i need to implement that [ OK ] like functionality in my script ..
so i refered the rc.sysinit so i found that its some command like "action" doing this..

If iam wrong,pls correct me...

esham

4

it looks like that 'action' command is a fuction defined somewhere in another script ... :confused:

5

here is it, partner... action is a function defined on /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Run some action. Log its output.
action() {
  STRING=$1
  echo -n "$STRING "
  shift
  initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -c "$*" && success $"$STRING" || failure $"$STRING"
  rc=$?
  echo
  return $rc
}

I've found this on a RedHat 7.1, I'm pretty sure that is the same on your RH9

6

Thank you very much for the support...