Why can't I initialize an array in my init.d script?

Question

First line of script --

PATHS=()

results in Syntax error: "(" unexpected

What is going on here? Can I not use arrays in my init.d script? Is it being interpreted by a shell that uses different syntax for arrays?

Running on Ubuntu 10.04 server.

Answer 1

Because it isn't a bash script (despite the fact that somebody had made the shebang line #!bin/bash). Ubuntu uses dash, which requires different syntax.