how to setup up start up programs

[Magnus Therning]

Just though I'd comment on this, since it won't actually do what Mustafa
asked for. It is however a really good explanation on how to _start a
program on boot_.

/M

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 07:46:04PM +0100, 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!
> 
>
>-- 
>
>Graham

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