On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:25, Mail List wrote: > On Sunday 22 April 2007 11:11:29 am Nigel Henry wrote: > > it has a "sleep 360" in the script, it justs hangs the bootup for 6 mins > > until the script has run to completion. Script below. > > Did you try something like > nohup your-script > /path/tolog 2>&1 & No, but I'm very new to scripting. A little help please. How would I set this up in /etc/rc.d/rc.local? That is using the script that I previously posted. The script wants to be started from /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but doesn't want to delay the bootup, which will nullify running the script. The script path is: /usr/local/bin/ntp-restart Nigel.