starting a program at boot time

[Jerry McAllister]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> >how do i  start a program  at boot time?
> 
> simplest to add to rc.local
> 
> or as a user - add
> 
> @reboot command
> in crontab

Not really.   

The more proper way is to add a startup script in /usr/local/rc.d/
There are notes and documentation for that and some samples.

////jerry


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