I had added that to my /etc/rc.local  At a command prompt sudo gedit /etc/rc.local  at the end of the file add the command.  Every time the computer boot, the command is ran as root.  <div class="gmail_quote"> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Leif Gregory <<a href="mailto:ldgregory69@gmail.com">ldgregory69@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello all, My name is Leif and I guess I'll be the FNG till the next person subs. I'm relatively new to Linux. Played off and on over the years with Debian, Red Hat, Mandrake and a couple others pretty much in dual boot environments. Shortly after installing Breezy Badger, I decided to make the head on plunge and wiped Windows from all the home machines. Haven't looked back since. I'm a geek and love getting dirty tweaking things, but I still consider myself a n00b in Linux. So, to start the party off right, I figured I'd throw out a question I've been unable to find an answer to. To prevent my laptop hard drive from going to an early grave, I've been using hdparm to set the Advance Power Management settings to 254 in order to reduce the number of load/unload cycles. i.e. hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda hdparm requires su privileges and so I was doing this manually at first. Sometimes I'd forget. So then I made a quicky script and threw that into sessions with gksudo so when I log in, I get the password prompt and it runs and all is good. The downside is that one, it's annoying, and two, I have to log in so that it runs. I'd like to set it up so that the script runs during boot before login and does so with su privileges where I don't have to type in a password for it. I've googled all over and either I just am not getting the search terms correct, or it's not something people do often enough to take the time to write about. I tried messing with sudoers so that my user account could run hdparm without a password, but never could get it working. If I can't do the boot thing, then I'll go back to that and see if you all can help. Any ideas? Appreciate the help. -- Leif Gregory Power Wagon Registry:  <a href="http://powerwagonregistry.org" target="_blank">http://powerwagonregistry.org</a> Truck Hacks:                <a href="http://trucks.PCWize.com" target="_blank">http://trucks.PCWize.com</a> Geocaching:                    <a href="http://gps.PCWize.com" target="_blank">http://gps.PCWize.com</a> PHP Tutorials and snippets:    <a href="http://www.DevTek.org" target="_blank">http://www.DevTek.org</a> -- ubuntu-us-nm mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-nm@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-us-nm@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-nm" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-nm</a> </blockquote></div>