Running a script at boot

[Dotan Cohen]

On 8/7/05, Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:
> 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
> > http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/202/fleetwood_mac.php
> > Fleetwood Mac Song Lyrics
> >
> 
> Run the script from root's crontab
> 
> @reboot /path/to/my/script
> 
>    Steve

I just went googleing with what you wrote, and didn't come up with
anything. In other words, nowhere has this ever been suggested (so far
as google knows).

I will try it, though. Just so that I won't have to reboot the
computer three times: will this cause the script to start only on the
next reboot, or on all reboots? Thanks.

Dotan Cohen
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