where do i shove sumthing which i want to be run everytime i boot?

theMonkeY · 09-06-2004, 03:56 AM

Hi,

My ISP is bigpond and it requires a program called 'bpalogin' to be running in the background in order to access the internet. Its no biggie, but the problem is i cannot access the net until i su and run bpalogin.

How can i get linux to automatically do this on startup? i hear the initialisation files are different on slack.

thanks

gbonvehi · 09-06-2004, 04:30 AM

put a line to run it on /etc/rc.d/rc.local that file is exactly whlat you want.

suslik · 09-06-2004, 02:49 PM

or, since it's a network-related item, I would say, add it to /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2
(Make sure it's executable)

DO a "which bpalogin"

Something like this should work

# Running bpalogin - Client for Bigpond
if [ -x [full_path_to bpalogin]/bpalogin ]; then
[full_path_to bpalogin]/bpalogin
fi