Run arbitrary commands at boot time?

[Vincent Untz]

Le vendredi 10 mars 2006 à 14:21 -0600, Rocco Stanzione a écrit :
> On Friday 10 March 2006 12:13, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> My point is to avoid having to write an init script.  The idea is to be able 
> to append a command to the end of a file that gets sourced at boot time.  I 
> think most users who would be interested in this can be trusted to do it.

Well, my point is that letting the user easily modify what's happening
during init, without him understanding what he's doing, can make the
system unusable.

Vincent

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