Running a script at boot

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 07 August 2005 15:38, David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) 
wrote:
>dotancohen at gmail.com 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.
>
>/etc/rc.d/rc.local is the traditional place for this kind of stuff.
>
For Red Hat and derivities.  Debian and derivitives do not use that 
mechanism as a default.

>Cheers,
>Dave

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