On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 07:51:28AM -0700, neutec@debiandomain.com wrote:
> Thanks
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:41:46PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:37:56AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 09:54:06AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> > > > Good Morning Group,
> > > > I want to have a firewall script I made to start automatically after
> > > > booting. The file has permission 755 and is in my /etc/init.d folder. What
> > > > will I need to do to make this script start and run at bootup?
> >
> > > man update-rc.d
> >
> > To amplify slightly:
> >
> > - /etc/init.d is where startup scripts "live".
> >
> > - The rc?.d directories are where specific init levels find their
> > kill and start scripts, which are linked to a script in /etc/init.d
> > Eg:
> > /etc/rc0.d
> > /etc/rc1.d
> > /etc/rc2.d
> > /etc/rc3.d
> > /etc/rc4.d
> > /etc/rc5.d
> > /etc/rc6.d
> > /etc/rcS.d
> >
> > update-rc.d is one mechanism for updating rc files.
> >
> Thanks for the help. Real quick question. I want to make fetchmailrc
> run at boot up but the file is in /home/$user. How will I make it start
> at boot up so my system will look for mail ?
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@reboot in a crontab file specifies scripts to run at boottime.
fetchmail is a user-run process, it isn't generally run as root or
systemwide, and can cause problems if it is.
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