Running a script at boot

[Steven Stern]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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.
>

See "man 5 crontab"

  These  special  time  specification  "nicknames"  are  supported, which
        replace the 5 initial time and date fields, and are prefixed by 
the ’@’
        character:
        @reboot    :    Run once, at startup.
        @yearly    :    Run once a year, ie.  "0 0 1 1 *".
        @annually  :    Run once a year, ie.  "0 0 1 1 *".
        @monthly   :    Run once a month, ie. "0 0 1 * *".
        @weekly    :    Run once a week, ie.  "0 0 * * 0".
        @daily     :    Run once a day, ie.   "0 0 * * *".
        @hourly    :    Run once an hour, ie. "0 * * * *".



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   Steve