rc question: one-time script

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:08, Mike Jeays wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:53 +0200, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > Is there any way of runnning a script, only once?
> > at boot time for example? and all that in an rc friendly
> > way, without having to change the /etc/rc* scripts?
> >
> > thanks in advance
> >
> > Nikos
> >
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> This quote from 'man 5 crontab' should help.
>
>  Instead of the first five fields, one of eight special strings may
>      appear:
>
>            string          meaning
>            ------          -------
>            @reboot         Run once, at startup.
>            @yearly         Run once a year, "0 0 1 1 *".
>            @annually       (same as @yearly)
>            @monthly        Run once a month, "0 0 1 * *".
>            @weekly         Run once a week, "0 0 * * 0".
>            @daily          Run once a day, "0 0 * * *".
>            @midnight       (same as @daily)
>            @hourly         Run once an hour, "0 * * * *".

Great, thanks a lot!