start up script operation

[John Kerr Anderson <jaanders@tm.net>]

Hello,

I have entered a start up script named <sysinit> in the /etc/init.d
directory.  I issued the command <update-rc.d sysinit start 20 2 3 4 5 .
stop 20 0 16 .> which seemed to work OK.  When I restarted the computer
the changes (starting hdparm & changing the text mode screen colours with
setterm) failed to change the settings.  Is there something I'm doing
wrong?  Do I need a separate file for each command?  Any help would be
appreciated!  :-)

Here is my sysint file:

# speeds up I/O for the hard disk
/sbin/hdparm -c3 -A1 -m8 /dev/hda

# these commands change the text consoles into blue background and white
# foreground screen colours.
/usr/bin/setterm -background blue -foreground white
/usr/bin/setterm -store

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