How to start rsync daemon at boot

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:00:39 +1200 (NZST)
"Jame Dobbs" <jamie.dobbs at ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> I have an i386 installed of Ubuntu 6.06 and I want to have an rsync daemon
> start at boot time but despite much Googling, reading of man pages and
> general seeking stuff out I cannot find a way to do this.
> Only thing of use I found was something telling me to add a line to inetd
> or xinetd to run it, but as neither of these files exist on my system I
> don't think that's a viable option.
> Can someone please help me out here.
> 

Not sure if this will do what you want, but from " man 5 crontab " :

 Instead  of  the  first  five  fields, one of eight special strings may
       appear:

              string         meaning
              ------         -------
              @reboot        Run once, at startup.

Peter