On Sunday 22 April 2007 20:18, Steven W. Orr wrote: > On Sunday, Apr 22nd 2007 at 19:23 +0200, quoth Nigel Henry: > > =>On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:25, Mail List wrote: > =>> On Sunday 22 April 2007 11:11:29 am Nigel Henry wrote: > =>> > it has a "sleep 360" in the script, it justs hangs the bootup for 6 > mins =>> > until the script has run to completion. Script below. > =>> > =>> Did you try something like > =>> nohup your-script > /path/tolog 2>&1 & > => > =>No, but I'm very new to scripting. > => > =>A little help please. How would I set this up in /etc/rc.d/rc.local? That > is =>using the script that I previously posted. > => > =>The script wants to be started from /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but doesn't want > to =>delay the bootup, which will nullify running the script. > => > =>The script path is: /usr/local/bin/ntp-restart > => > =>Nigel. > > It's hard to follow this, but I think you'resaying that you added a line > to rc.local that says > > /usr/local/bin/ntp-restart > > Just say: > > /usr/local/bin/ntp-restart & > > which will cause the command to background itself. Boot will proceed and > the content of the script will execute the sleep while the rest of the > boot continues. After the sleep ends, the rest of the script will proceed. > > Make sense? Well that works just fine. First tried in user space on on the CLI. and it returned a command prompt immediately. then added it to >/etc/rc.d/rc.local Reboot, and once booted up, connect to the Internet, then run ntpq> pe, and all 6 Internet time servers are listed. it obviously works. thanks a bunch. I'd still like to get this working automatically though. Ideally a script that will ping an Internet server, and when a positive response is received, will run /usr/local/bin/ntp-restart. That way I can press the start button, and go upstairs to make a cup of tea/coffee, then come back down , and everything is up and running. One step at a time though. Thanks for the help. It's fixed one problem. Nigel.
