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[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday, June 30, 2013 06:56:35 PM kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org wrote:
> Howdy;
> 
> I'm running 12.04 now, but somewhere between kubuntu 6 or 7
>   and now, I recall seeing occaissional reference to a
> directory in which you could put stuff, and have the system
> automatically run it in the background when it booted up.
> 
> Now that I'm looking for it, it has of course, completely
> vanished.  "locate auto|less", reveals several gigabytes
> worth of stuff, all apperently application specific.
> 
> Is something like what I'm looking for still around, or is
> my memory playing tricks?
> 
> Bill

I put things into /etc/rc.local  

The file has the following comment:

# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.




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