run process in startup
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue May 31 13:21:00 UTC 2005
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:09:05AM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>> crontab -e
> =>> add at the end
> =>> @reboot /usr/local/bin/noip2
> => ^^^^^^
> =>Woah, cool. I never knew that -- very useful.
> I don't recommend it. Most things that happen at boot time are under root
> it. When you place things in rc.local you know the order they will run
> in. Crontab entires are typically intended to not know anything about
> order. To say that using this feature is obscure is an understatement.
> Typically, people not only don't know to look in a crontab to see what's
> going to happen at boot, they also don't have a convention for a location
> of the file to be fed to crontab to reset it when needed.
I agree, probably not the best for system tasks.
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