on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:28:23PM -0500, John Kerr Anderson (jaanders@tm.net) wrote: > 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 Read the file /etc/init.d/README and references therein for general information on the SysV init system. I'd strongly recommend adapting /etc/init.d/skeleton to create a suitable init file. What are your file permissions -- executable helps. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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