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Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> 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
> 

what happens if you invoke the init script directly, ie not running the
commands contained within the script...

/etc/init.d/cupsd start

for example

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