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Old 01-10-2011, 01:49 PM   #1
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Problems with rc.local, it wont run my bash-script at startup


Hi there.

I have some problems with rc.local. It wont execute a scipt of mine at startup.
The script itself works and if I run rc.local manually it works too...

The script to run:

#!/bin/sh

# Getting your external IP-adress from http://whatismyip.org/
set `lynx -dump http://whatismyip.org/`
IP=$1

# Specify the following options

# Senders email:
SendersEmail="mymail@hotmail.com"

# Senders usernamne:
Username="mymail@hotmail.com"

# Senders password:
Password="mypassword"

# Recievers email:
RecieversEmail="myothermail@hotmail.com"

# Subject:
Subject="IP-adress"

# Message:
Message="$IP"

# SMTP Server:
Server="smtp.live.com:587"

# Sending the email

sendEmail -f $SendersEmail \
-t $RecieversEmail \
-s $Server \
-xu $Username \
-xp $Password \
-u $Subject \
-m $Message


/etc/rc.d/rc.local:


[root@Rorschach rc.d]# cat rc.local
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local

./sendIPmail.sh
[root@Rorschach rc.d]#


Doesn't seem to be a lynx-issue. I've tried with hard coded text as message too...
The script lies under / and have chmod 777.
Any ideas?

Running CentOS 5.5
(if you didn't get it, this script is for sending the external IP-adress to my email att startup. If a thief is stupid enough to start it connected to internet)

Last edited by ScorchPipe; 01-10-2011 at 01:50 PM.
 
Old 01-10-2011, 02:00 PM   #2
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what about using the absolute path of your script?
 
Old 01-10-2011, 02:13 PM   #3
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what about using the absolute path of your script?
The absolute path is /sendIPmail.sh

I've tried other locations too.
 
Old 01-10-2011, 02:16 PM   #4
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To expand on HasC's post the . in ./sendIPmail.sh is a shortcut for current working directory. Basically it is not running since the script can not be found. If you use the full path your script should work as expected.
 
Old 01-10-2011, 02:19 PM   #5
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To expand on HasC's post the . in ./sendIPmail.sh is a shortcut for current working directory. Basically it is not running since the script can not be found. If you use the full path your script should work as expected.
so if I put

/bin/sh /sendIPmail.sh

in rc.local for example?
 
Old 01-10-2011, 02:28 PM   #6
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so if I put

/bin/sh /sendIPmail.sh

in rc.local for example?
As long as the script really is in /sendIPmail.sh and is chmod 755 and has the "#!/bin/bash" string in line one, it should be sufficient to just do:

/sendIPmail.sh

e.g. without the /bin/sh.
 
Old 01-10-2011, 02:28 PM   #7
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Just /sendIPmail.sh since the script is executable. Furthermore the path to lynx and sendmail may not be set until a user actually logs in so use the full path for them too.
 
Old 01-10-2011, 02:31 PM   #8
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Ok I will try it... and its sendEmail, not sendmail =)
 
Old 01-10-2011, 02:39 PM   #9
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Just /sendIPmail.sh since the script is executable. Furthermore the path to lynx and sendmail may not be set until a user actually logs in so use the full path for them too.

How do I get the full path to a program (sendEmail and lynx)?
 
Old 01-10-2011, 03:13 PM   #10
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How do I get the full path to a program
Code:
which sendmail
 
Old 01-10-2011, 03:41 PM   #11
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Thank you guys. It works now!
 
  


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