commands at startup

polle · 2007-10-28 19:44:35

Hi

I just installed arch (gentoo user for years) and afer a while I got everything working. (at least I think so)
Just one thing, where do I put commands that need to be excecuted at boot?
thanks

fwojciec · 2007-10-28 19:54:15

Depends on what it is exactly that you want to accomplish, but the standard place would be the /etc/rc.local script.

sveinemann · 2007-10-28 20:05:38

Are you thinking about startup within gnome/kde? Or before GDM?

polle · 2007-10-29 14:32:38

before slim is ok, (I use xfce4 and slim as displaymanager)
in fact I just want to use the comaand ntpdate at boot (you can run it as a daemon I know, but just once ntpdate at boot is enough for me)

Ashren · 2007-10-29 14:39:52

insert "sudo ntpdate LOCAL_SERVER" into rc.local.

Where LOCAL_SERVER is the server from your country. I guess you have to add your user to the network group as well.

Ramses de Norre · 2007-10-29 16:23:43

Ashren wrote:

insert "sudo ntpdate LOCAL_SERVER" into rc.local.
Where LOCAL_SERVER is the server from your country. I guess you have to add your user to the network group as well.

Sudo isn't needed, rc.local is sourced as root.

Last edited by Ramses de Norre (2007-10-29 16:23:57)

byte · 2007-10-29 17:45:21

pacman -S ntp, then you could put 'ntpdate' in the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf and edit /etc/conf.d/ntp-client.conf to your liking. But yes, normally that rc.local advice is the right way.

polle · 2007-10-30 11:28:17

thanks, indeed I did as suggested:
ntpdate LOCAL_SERVER
in /etc/rc.local and that just works,

thnaks

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commands at startup

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