On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:58 PM, James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > Nice thing about Linux - Do it the way that works for you. I personally like and prefer using cron, it just works and does so exactly when I tell it to. > > /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
