Hi,
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 08:51 +0100, Michel van Deventer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 09:46 +0200, Roland Roland wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > i have a certain issue at hand that i'm trying to solve.
> >
> > there's a certain command that i need to execute 10 minutes after boot.
> > how can i set that? im not very expert with cron jobs but can it be done
> > that way? i know that cronjob works on specified time but how can i set
> > it to run with '10 min after startup" as a condition ?
> There's no such option in cron. But the easiest way to do this is to put
> it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local like this :
>
> sleep 600 && <command>
>
> this waits 600 seconds and (if succesfully) executes your command
And (of course) slows down bootup :) Better put the sleep 600 in your script
and start the script detached from /etc/rc.d/rc.local (with an & )
Regards,
Michel
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