noob question on init scripts

Jim Cheetham jim at egressive.com
Wed Feb 23 03:25:49 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 11:18 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> I have a command I want to run every time I start the PC, would
> putting it in the init.d directory be the best practice way of doing
> it?

If it's a "system" task, then possibly, yes - there's a load of overhead
to doing it correctly, just putting a file in there will not result in
it being run.

As an alternative, you could reference your command in crontab, using
the @reboot time specification instead. That might be more appropriate.
See 'man 5 crontab'

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