I hammered out this reply, and then I realized it would be somewhat irrelevant because I use slink and I've been told that Debian is switching from /etc/rc.boot to rc.S, or something, because it's more widely used. So if the following doesn't apply to potato, then please disregard it:
Try putting the scripts into /etc/rc.boot Make sure they are prefaced with #!/bin/sh or #!/bin/bash or #!/bin/perl, or whichever program you want to run the script. This is something that I never needed to do before because my scripts were always executed from within bash (and I was only using bash scripts) and my perl scripts were executed with the perl program in the command line. But you probably knew this part already =) The way the /etc/rc.XX directories work is that whatever is in the directory is executed when the system enters runlevel XX. I can't remember which numbers mean what, but rc.boot isn't referred to numerically so it's easy to remember what it does. Everybody feel free to correct me if I've said anything stupid in this post. Heck, the letters might not even be rc. I've been away from civilization (read:Debian--or BSD, or anthing similar) for so long (read: three weeks) that I'm starting to lose it. >*please CC all replies to me, as I am not subscribed >to this list. >thanks* Yeah, if you want to correct me, CC it to him. [EMAIL PROTECTED] >I am using Debian GNU/Linux potato i386. I have >written a ipchains >firewall script that I would like to be executed >automatically during >startup. > >Where would I put this (shell) script? I know that >Debian has rules > >Where would I put this (shell) script? I know that >Debian has rules >about the "proper" way to do certain system config >things - what is >the "proper" way to do this? ===== Jolan Tru, Fish of Borg Visit me on the web! http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Frontier/4784/stccg.html ///Archaeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what appears to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read "To my Darling Candy. All Characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental."///Red Dwarf __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com