starting a script at boot time?
Good Morning Group, I want to have a firewall script I made to start automatically after booting. The file has permission 755 and is in my /etc/init.d folder. What will I need to do to make this script start and run at bootup?
Re: starting a script at boot time?
man update-rc.d On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 09:54:06AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Good Morning Group, I want to have a firewall script I made to start automatically after booting. The file has permission 755 and is in my /etc/init.d folder. What will I need to do to make this script start and run at bootup? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY (RN2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
Re: starting a script at boot time?
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:37:56AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 09:54:06AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Good Morning Group, I want to have a firewall script I made to start automatically after booting. The file has permission 755 and is in my /etc/init.d folder. What will I need to do to make this script start and run at bootup? man update-rc.d To amplify slightly: - /etc/init.d is where startup scripts live. - The rc?.d directories are where specific init levels find their kill and start scripts, which are linked to a script in /etc/init.d Eg: /etc/rc0.d /etc/rc1.d /etc/rc2.d /etc/rc3.d /etc/rc4.d /etc/rc5.d /etc/rc6.d /etc/rcS.d update-rc.d is one mechanism for updating rc files. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpV3F5EA5kZC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: starting a script at boot time?
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 07:51:28AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:41:46PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:37:56AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 09:54:06AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Good Morning Group, I want to have a firewall script I made to start automatically after booting. The file has permission 755 and is in my /etc/init.d folder. What will I need to do to make this script start and run at bootup? man update-rc.d To amplify slightly: - /etc/init.d is where startup scripts live. - The rc?.d directories are where specific init levels find their kill and start scripts, which are linked to a script in /etc/init.d Eg: /etc/rc0.d /etc/rc1.d /etc/rc2.d /etc/rc3.d /etc/rc4.d /etc/rc5.d /etc/rc6.d /etc/rcS.d update-rc.d is one mechanism for updating rc files. Thanks for the help. Real quick question. I want to make fetchmailrc run at boot up but the file is in /home/$user. How will I make it start at boot up so my system will look for mail ? rant degree=mild Once quoting order (new follows/leads original material) has been established, please follow it. Skipping forward and back in a post is annoying at best, confusing or misleading at worst. /rant @reboot in a crontab file specifies scripts to run at boottime. fetchmail is a user-run process, it isn't generally run as root or systemwide, and can cause problems if it is. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpIiW2KGq8VS.pgp Description: PGP signature
