Christopher W. Curtis wrote: > > It just runs the program. If the program fails to run, it checks return > > codes to determine that. This is what all debian init scripts do, via set -e. > > ~# grep set /etc/init.d/portmap > sleep 1 # needs a short pause or pmap_set won't work. :( > pmap_set </var/run/portmap.upgrade-state > pmap_set </var/run/portmap.state man sh -- see shy jo