how to autorun script at startup as administrator?

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 09:21:44PM +0100, Thomas Kaiser wrote:
> On 18.12.19 20:45, Dave Stevens wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 23:24:17 -0500
> > Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Can anyone point me in the direction of a script running as admin
> > without intervention?
> 
> Run it from root's crontab. Check every n minutes if the script is
> running, if not start it. I know it is bad, but it works.

If you're taking the crontab approach, then you can use "@reboot"
instead of the first five fields, which is defined as "run once, at
startup".

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]