Run script at boot time

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 11:28 +0200, Shahar Dag wrote:
> >> I want to run the script when the computer boots.
> >> [...]
> >> The script is started by an entry in /etc/crontab

The right way to run such a script is as a startup script rather than
from cron. This is exactly what the whole startup script system is
*for*. Then you can precisely control where in the startup sequence and
for what runlevels the script will run.

Regards, K.

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