su - nobody -c "/foo/runthis.sh $@"

[saras]

I've got a this line in a script in initd. It's being called when it should. I've put in a line of debug/print code in runthis.sh that would write out to a file. I don't see the debug statement after booting. I really don't think runthis.sh is being called. Exacty what does logging on a nobody do?

$@ is either Start or Stop depending on an S or K init file.