On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:36:16AM -0800, Curt, WE7U wrote: > Crontab is for programs you want to start on a periodic basis.
No, it's also for @reboot ... a special tag, see "man 5 crontab" ... it means jobs get started as your username when the system has finished booted. > /etc/init.d is for starting/stopping programs when you start up your > system or change runlevels. Yes, although these generally run as root unless you do something to switch user within the script. On many Linux distributions there is also /etc/rc.local, a file that you can place your startup commands in without having to fix up the init.d symlinks. These are run as root too. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
