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I installed OpenSUSE 10.2 over the weekend on a new Dell laptop. Install went pretty much flawlessly, and I really like this distro so far on this laptop. However, I've been a Slacker on my desktops for about 3 years now, so I'm unfamiliar with where I would put a script I'd like to be run at startup. In Slackware I'd put it in "/etc/rc.local/", but I'm not sure what the corresponding directory would be in openSUSE.
OpenSuSE uses SysV (Slackware supports it too) so you can reference or add it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, unless it's a regular daemon, then you better write an initscript, which is pretty easy. Examples enough in /etc/init.d ...
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Create new script that runs on startup
