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Old 01-14-2009, 07:33 PM   #1
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how to run a bash script before startup

Hi guys,

I need to run a bash script at the startup before anything else is up. This file exports some important global variables for some other scripts that are supposed to come up after.

I tried rc.local but it doesn't work...after the command line is up, I can't execute the scripts because the configurations are not properly exported...
I don't want to use /etc/profile as it waits for bash to come up first before it can export the configs and I can't wait that long...

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
Old 01-14-2009, 08:45 PM   #2
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Did you try /etc/inittab or rc.sysinit?
(rc.local normally run after all the other init scripts)
 
Old 01-14-2009, 08:45 PM   #3
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Old 01-14-2009, 09:51 PM   #4
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Put the script into the last line:

/etc/rc.d/rc.local
 
  


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