sleep in startup script never wakes up

[Lowell Gilbert]

Robert Dormer <rdormer at gmail.com> writes:

> I have a shell script that I've put in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> directory of a box to do some fscking when needed.  The script is
> straightforward, there are not any complicated control structures or
> anything like that.  However, at one point it had a sleep statement in
> it that would go to sleep, but when the required number of seconds
> elapsed, it wouldn't wake up again.  I've since rewritten the script
> to not require it, but I was wondering what's up with that?  Is this a
> known problem?

I don't think so; I certainly don't see this symptom myself.  Maybe 
you're not invoking /bin/sleep?  Make sure you specify the full path
in your script...