How Do I Get A Program to Start at the Machine Startup

andy1.52 · 03-03-2005, 10:04 AM

I'm running a folding program that runs off of idle cpu time so it doesn't effect the computer's overall performance. But anyway I want this program to start when I boot up my machine and I have no idea how to do this. I am running mandrake 10.1 official.

Brian Knoblauch · 03-03-2005, 10:33 AM

You can do that by placing a startup script in the appropriate runlevel directory under /etc/rc.d. If you're running graphical, that's runlevel 5, so place a script in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d. Scripts starting with "S" are for startup, "K" is for shutdown. They're executed in numerical order, so you normally would create one call "S99myprogram" for startup, and a friendly shutdown script as "K00myprogram".