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tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

Posts: 1,017

How To Start A Script When You Start The Computer

I would like to run a script when I start my computer. It needs to run as root and go something like this...

/etc/rc.d/moblock start
/etc/rc.d/moblock stop
/etc/rc.d/moblock start

The reason I need to do it like this is because moblock currently has a bug in which it will not work the first time it is loaded after powering on the system.

peart

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From: Kanuckistan

Registered: 2003-07-28

Posts: 510

Re: How To Start A Script When You Start The Computer

Put the commands in /etc/rc.local.  They will get executed at boot time, after all the other services are started.

Last edited by peart (2008-02-18 04:57:36)

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: How To Start A Script When You Start The Computer

You'll probably also need to add something like "sleep 10" after the first "/etc/rc.d/moblock start" because it takes a while before moblock actually fails on the first run.  Best thing to do, I think, would be to put all of this in a separate script and then execute that script from rc.local with a & after it (so that it runs in the background).