On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, James Cameron 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.
This must be new since I learned about cron many years ago. Perhaps
Linux-specific? I initially learned on SCO Xenix 286 and BSD Unix.
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.
That's BSD-ish (old style). System5 init stuff is done with
/etc/rc.d/init.d scripts and symlinks into /etc/rc.d/rc?.d
directories to activate them at various runlevels.
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