Running a script at boot

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Sun Aug 7 18:06:00 UTC 2005


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Simple question: how do I start a script that must be run as root at
> boot? I've been googleing and I came across chkconfig, but I don't
> want to mess with it for the first time alone.
> 
> I've also poked around in MARC for "running script startup" on the
> fedora-list and others. The only thing that seemed relevant was a post
> for SUSE where the following was suggested:
> ln -s /usr/sbin/myscript /etc/init.d/rc3.d/S99myscript
> 
> Is this relevant for FC4 as well? Thanks.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
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> 

Run the script from root's crontab

@reboot /path/to/my/script

-- 

   Steve




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