On Monday 04 March 2002 18:07, you wrote:

Hi,

This sort of program is usually started by an entry in the users crontab,

for instance

0 * * * * cd /root/Seti-Dir/Seti/setiathome; ./setiathome -nice 19 > /dev/null 2> 
/dev/null

Have a look a crontab in the man pages...


> Hi, I am trying to start a program as user on boot.  But not sure how to
> do it.
>
> I've been trying to use rc.local, but not running the program as root.
>
> I have been trying:
>
> cd /home/paul/.seti ; su paul -c ./setistack > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
>
> But this seems to stop my system in boot, and it just stays booting
> forever.
>
> - Paul
>
>
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