Re: running a script at startup

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I am working on getting linux to connect to the internet upon startup. The
> connections is different, ie. I use a null modem at WMU appartments, so I am
> using the ppp-on, ppp-on-dialer, and ppp-off scripts.
> My question is this, do I add this to inittab, or to something like rc.local?

I would not add it to inittab.

If you want to get fancy, you could create it's own start/stop script
like all the major services have, but the easiest thing is to add it 
to /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

> I also would like to know exactly how to do this, I seem to remember reading
> this but cannot now find it.

Exactly?  vi, pico, emacs, xemacs, xedit, nedit, gnome-edit, kedit, ...
(add it to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local ;)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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