When is Perl available at boot?

I've built this huge shell script to configure Iptables at boot, but over the 
years, it's gotten bloated and there are a lot of kludges in it. So I was 
thinking about rewriting it in Perl. But I see people in the Debian docs and 
forums saying that Perl isn't available for init scripts (and there don't seem 
to be any either). But I can't find anything saying why not -- C programs work, 
and Perl is written in C, so it seems to me that Perl ought to run...

So do I need to go to C? With a starter shell script in /etc/init.d? What *is* 
available at boot? A link with the proper magic words would do fine.

TIA.

-- 
Glenn English





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