I have just installed No-IP on a brand new Ubuntu 12.04 install. The program starts fine when I start it from the CLI, but if I try to make this startup script work it won't start.

I got this script from their install instructions:

#! /bin/sh

# . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions  # uncomment/modify for your killproc

case "$1" in

    start)

    echo "Starting noip2."

    /usr/local/bin/noip2

    ;;

    stop)

    echo -n "Shutting down noip2."

    killall -TERM /usr/local/bin/noip2

    ;;

    *)

    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"

    exit 1

esac

exit 0

The CL is correct because if I run /usr/local/bin/noip2 it starts. But the script itself won't start it.

What do I have wrong in there? The script is executable:

-rwxrwxrwx   1 root root   299 Jan 12 13:28 noip*

EDIT

If I try the Init.d script it also works:

sudo /etc/init.d/noip start

It starts up just fine that way without a hitch.