how to setup up start up programs

[GOwin]

I tried this on my Hoary installation. It doesn't seem to work. :(



I'm trying to run gammu automatically.



my etc/init.d/local

#! /bin/sh

gammu --smsd MYSQL /etc/smsdrc



Could someone tell me where I went wrong?



Graham Wrote: 
> On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 18:58, Mustafa Abbasi wrote:

> 

> > i wanted to setup azureus and firefox to start whenever i start

> > gnome. like startup in windows.

> > any idea how to do this in ubuntu.

> > it can be done in fedora's gnome but i can't figure out how to do it

> > in ubuntu

> 

> I think I can help :-) You need to set up a local file as in other
> Linux 

> distributions, but this is not usually present in Debian installations.
> 

> The actual web page to do this is at:

> 

> http://www.desktop-linux.net/debian-rclocal.htm

> 

> but I note that the page is down at the moment, so here is a copy of
> the 

> text from my archives:

> 

> "Debian Rc.local Equivalent

> 

> In many distributions you can add commands to run certain programs at 

> the end of the boot process after all system services have been started
> 

> into the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, however there is no such file in a 

> Debian system.  Here is the way to accomplish the same thing the debian
> 

> way:

> 

> 

> 1)  Make a file called /etc/init.d/local with a text editor. This file
> 

> is a script so it should always start with the following line:

> 

> #! /bin/sh

> 

> 2)  Next, for example I have an always on cable modem and I want to
> use 

> rdate to update the system time to atomic clock time at startup, so I 

> add the following command to the file:

> 

> rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu && hwclock --systohc

> 

> (The rdate command updates your system time, then the hwclock command
> 

> updates the bios clock)

> 

> 3)  Make this file executable with:

> 

> chmod +x /etc/init.d/local

> 

> 4)  Next, link the new local file by running:

> 

> update-rc.d local defaults 80"

> 

> (omitting the quotes)

> 

> Disclaimer: I have not used this with Ubuntu or Kubuntu (yet) so use 

> with care, but it works well with Libranet!

> 

> 

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> 

> Graham

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