Auto execute shell script on startup, right before use

sgware · 11-12-2007, 10:12 PM

How can I create (or add to an already existing) shell script that will be executed after the rest of the system is done initializing?

Basically, I have some configuration options that I need to set for the computer in question every time it starts up... and some of them rely on the networking services already being configured.

The OS is Aurora SPARC Linux, which is just Fedora 6 for SPARC chips, using bash as the default. If it matters, there is no GUI system installed on this particular machine... it's a bare-bones command line only box.

I know that several such scripts already exist. I need the one that executes last, so that all the rest of the system configuration will have already taken place.

jschiwal · 11-12-2007, 11:45 PM

Sounds like:
/etc/rc.d/rc.local

Code:

cat rc.local
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local

sgware · 11-13-2007, 12:10 AM

Prefect, thank you!