this has been driving me crazy all week, no matter what I try it just wont work.

I have written a script that installs several programs, half way through it requires the machine to be rebooted.

what I've been trying do do without success, is when the system restarts a terminal window opens and the script resumes.

I've googled this, and it seems other people have aslo tried and failed to acheive the desired result.

ok, I know it would be easy to just run the script without the terminal window (using cron @reboot or rc.local), but I really need the verbose output as the user must make 2 selections on the remaing installations.

So if anyone knows how to open a terminal and run a script after startup, could they please please let me know how to do it.

many thanks.

In your script, at the start:
if $CONTINUE=1 then go to half way point #the post reboot stage.
fi
. . . (later)
touch /tmp/some_file && reboot # You reboot here

in your startup:

if ( -f /tmp/some_file; ) then
CONTINUE=1 /path/to/script
fi

let the half way point bit zap the tmpfile, add/correct all the syntax and try it. If you need the state of half a dozen variables, just echo them to(>>) the tmpfile, and read them back in.

cheers for the reply mate,

its easy enough to get the script to restart from where I need it to, just getting a terminal window open with the script running after a rebbot is the impossible bit.

any ideas?

I would run from init, & output to a file unless you require interaction. You can run tail or less on the file. But if you r4equire interaction, you can restart the thing.