Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 8/7/05, Steven Stern <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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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
