Run arbitrary commands at boot time?

[Vincent Untz]

Le jeudi 09 mars 2006 à 18:57 -0600, Rocco Stanzione a écrit :
> On Thursday 09 March 2006 18:04, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > Back in my Mandrake days we had a file, /etc/rc.local, where we could put
> > > arbitrary commands to be executed with root privileges at the end of the
> > > init stage, just before the login prompt or ?dm was presented.  A *very*
> > > frequently asked question on irc is where to put a script or command to
> > > run like this, and there doesn't seem to be a very good answer.
> >
> > Copy /etc/init.d/skeleton to a new file in /etc/init.d/, edit it to suit
> > your needs, and run update-rc.d to cause it to run whenever you want.
> 
> Never noticed that file before.  It looks like a good solution if I want to 
> put an init script together with start and stop, assign it to the appropriate 
> runlevels, etc., but often I simply want a single command to be executed at 
> boot time, and I might not have the bash foo necessary to make a decent init 
> script.

If the user doesn't know bash enough to do this, then he certainly
shouldn't edit an init script himself. He should use a software to do
it. Maybe adding some feature to gnome-system-tools would be enough?

Vincent

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