On Monday 02 January 2006 10:14 pm, Mike Esquardez wrote: > Hello. I have been reading the docs but i can see what i'm doing wrong. I > also was to read this > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-star >ting-services.html but I am not running a service, just some command that > need to be run on start up. > > I have a shell script that works when i run it as root. I have moved it to > /usr/local/etc/rc.d and chmod +x but it is not running when the pc starts. > Is moving file to usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and chmod +x all i have to do? > > Any ideas would be great. many thanks to you. > Mik >
You should run your script from cron. See man 5 crontab. Add the following to /etc/crontab @reboot root /path/to/your/script Beech --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://akparadise.byethost33.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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