Re: [rtl] init method

[Norm Dresner]

There are startup scripts provided in /etc/rc.d exactly for the purpose of running program(s) during the boot process.  These files are     /etc/rc.d/rc#.d/S99local where # is 2, 3, and 5 If you're running X, your final init-state is 5 and the last init-script that runs will be /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99local; if you're not running X, then it's 3 instead of 5..   You are free to hack up the requisite scripts.  Note too that if you're running X, the system still goes thru the 3-state before transitioning to 5 so you can even start a program before X-window starts if it's a console program.   Norman Dresner Fellow Systems Engineer & SGI Laboratory Administrator Radar Systems Engineering Department Electronic Systems and Sensors Segment Northrop Grumman Corporation Baltimore-Washington International Airport 7323 Aviation Boulevard Baltimore Maryland 21240   Voice: (410) 993 - 2096 Mornings; all-day voice-mail  (410) 969 - 8068 Afternoons with answering machine FAX: (410) 993 - 8084 On-site  (410) 969 - 8068 Afternoons; call first to arrange E-Mail: Mornings: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Afternoons: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeffrey Krasky To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 11:54 AM Subject: [rtl] init method Hi, this may not have to be a real-time question, but I am hoping someone knows the answer.  Someone told me that I can modify the file rc.sysinit so that I can have control of everything that happens when the machine boots.  Here is my ideal situation: right after the machine is done booting and mounting the file systems, it goes and finds my program and runs it.  I would like my program to first get the current time down to a microsecnd, then "run it's function", then get the time again, and output the total execution time down to the nearest microsecond.  Then I dont care what happens after that.  I would like to make sure that nothing else could be running, like a daemon or something.  Is this the way to go or are there better ideas?   Thanks all,   Jeff