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#1 2007-05-20 05:58:15
- Shagbag
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Running a Bash script as root automatically at boot [RESOLVED]
I have a small script I run to initialise my laptop's miniPCI wireless card.
The script uses iwconfig and iwpriv so it has to be run as root.
To date I have been running this script manually by su-ing into root, executing the script (./gigabyte.sh) and logging out of root.
I would like to automate this script so that it runs as part of the init process but I don't know how to do this.
Could someone tell me how to do this, please?
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#2 2007-05-20 06:10:28
- thepizzaking
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Re: Running a Bash script as root automatically at boot [RESOLVED]
add the script to the '/etc/rc.local' file.
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#3 2007-05-20 12:52:04
- byte
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Re: Running a Bash script as root automatically at boot [RESOLVED]
And chmod +x /etc/rc.local
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#4 2007-05-21 15:18:22
- Shagbag
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Re: Running a Bash script as root automatically at boot [RESOLVED]
Thanks. I added it to '/etc/rc.local' and it worked. I didn't need to chmod +x /etc/rc.local though - maybe it's already set up like that? (I don't know).
Anyway, it's fixed. Thanks for your help.
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