script to run at boot

[hashi@pooq.com]

Other Linuxes have a p;ace to put a file that is to be run after the
usual bootup, where I can put extra commands that are also to be run
at every boot.

Is there such a place in Debian?

-- hendrik


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[Shawn Lamson]

On Fri, August 01 at 3:02 PM EDT
[email]hashi@pooq.com[/email] wrote:

>Other Linuxes have a p;ace to put a file that is to be run after the
>usual bootup, where I can put extra commands that are also to be run
>at every boot.
>
>Is there such a place in Debian?

1)make a file /etc/init.d/rc.local
there may be a different suggested name for the file at this point,
but rc.local is used by other linuxes last time I checked
2)give it the commands you want
3)chown root /etc/init.d/rc.local #do these only if perms are not
correct
4)chgrp root /etc/init.d/rc.local
4)chmod 755 /etc/init.d/rc.local
5)update-rc.d rc.local start 99 2 .
yes a period at the end

I think this will put it in /etc/rc2.d as S99rc.local but you may need
to read the update-rc.d man page as I am not an expert on it.

HTH

Shawn Lamson
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[David Z Maze]

[email]hashi@pooq.com[/email] writes:

> Other Linuxes have a p;ace to put a file that is to be run after the
> usual bootup, where I can put extra commands that are also to be run
> at every boot.
>
> Is there such a place in Debian?

Put the file in /etc/init.d (copy /etc/init.d/skeleton if you need
to; it should have a somewhat similar structure to that file). Then
make links from there to /etc/rcS.d or /etc/rc[2345].d, naming the
file appropriately for where you want your script to run. See the
documentation in /usr/share/doc/sysvinit for more details.

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[Johann Koenig]

On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 21:30:12 +0200
Shawn Lamson <shawn.lamson@verizon.net> wrote:

> 3)chown root /etc/init.d/rc.local #do these only if perms are not
> correct
> 4)chgrp root /etc/init.d/rc.local

Nifty trick:
chown root:root <file>
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[Danie Roux]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:02:19PM -0400, [email]hashi@pooq.com[/email] wrote:

> Other Linuxes have a p;ace to put a file that is to be run after the
> usual bootup, where I can put extra commands that are also to be run
> at every boot.
>
> Is there such a place in Debian?

Yes, /etc/rcS.d

Read the README there.

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