start/stop script woes: ./squid.sh: Cannot determine the PREFIX

[Chuck Swiger]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 12:18, Andreas Klemm wrote:
[ ... ]
> Its really not very comfortable having to call the start/stop scripts
> with the complete path.
>
> root at titan[ttyp2]{211} /usr/local/etc/rc.d ./squid.sh start
> ./squid.sh: Cannot determine the PREFIX

I agree with your complaint: while the script may need to invoke itself 
(typically for a restart command which looks like "$0 stop ; $0 start"), it 
doesn't need an absolute path to do so.  SysV-style init scripts used to be 
associated with runlevels, so that the startup script for Squid would be in 
/etc/init.d/squid, and symlinked to /etc/rc2.d/S50squid.  That is, symlinked via 
a relative path like "../init.d/squid", not an absolute path.

-- 
-Chuck