Running Scripts/Commands on Startup

drknow · 01-08-2004, 07:01 PM

Ok, first of all, let me apoligize for the small posting frenzy I have been on as of late. Its just that I am very new to linux, and I enjoy learning as much as possible and helping as many people as I can.

Now to my question

. First I wanted to mount my ntfs partition to /mnt/windows. I got that all figured out by editing fstab. Then I thought about how useful it would be to run commands/scripts on whenever linux starts. So that is my question; How do I run commands on startup?

Thanks in advance,
Thad Blankenship

Tinkster · 01-08-2004, 07:39 PM

That's a bit distro-dependend :)

Generally, most of them will understand
a
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
to be some sort of autoexec.bat ...
Slack does. And I think some others do, too.
SuSE used to have a slighlty differently named
file (but it's about two years since I've used
SuSE so I can't recall)...

What's your distro?

Cheers,
Tink

SciYro · 01-08-2004, 07:46 PM

look at /etc/inittab that contains a list of definitions, and general stsrtup procedure (starts gtty(or whatever login program you use), in the file youll see a list of runlvls and teh defualt one, then look for the strtup fiels name for that runlevel further down teh file itll be /etc/rc.d/rc.(whatever) , edit that new file you jsut found to add whatever prosess you want

drknow · 01-08-2004, 11:18 PM

Thanks for the help....Ill try it out as soon as I can get out of this windows cage im in

. By the way im using Shrike (RH9)

rlange · 01-09-2004, 05:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tinkster
That's a bit distro-dependend

Generally, most of them will understand
a
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
to be some sort of autoexec.bat ...
Slack does. And I think some others do, too.
SuSE used to have a slighlty differently named
file (but it's about two years since I've used
SuSE so I can't recall)...

What's your distro?

Cheers,
Tink

Anyone know of the file i would need to write a script to in order to enable 'unmask interupt" on Suse 9.0 personal???